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...There are some people who say he seems syrupy. But that's who he is," says New York Yankees adviser Reggie Jackson, who has known Rodriguez since the young player was a 17-year-old Miami phenom who was already an expert networker. "A lot of that comes from the fact that he's so good-looking. He's almost pretty. He's got good health, a beautiful wife and $252 million. If they gave you $252 million, you'd be a pretty good guy. Life is a box of chocolates for him, except he knows what kind...
...This Old House to Trading Spaces, the theme of most home shows has been that your home is a creative expression of your personality. On the new shows, your personality is, if anything, an obstacle. Sell This House (A&E, Sundays, 5:30 p.m. E.T.) has Roger Hazard, an expert "home restager"--this is an actual profession--reminding a couple, "We're not decorating this house for you to live in. We're decorating it for you to leave." Likewise, HGTV's Designed to Sell (Sundays, 8 p.m. E.T.), which joins the network's already popular House Hunters, helps sellers...
pity himself and blame others. And George W. Bush? This most publicly religious of Presidents has been set upon by a series of Old Testament prophets--first, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, ranting in the desert about the wages of fiscal irresponsibility, and now Richard Clarke, the counterterrorism expert, who evangelized before 9/11 about the al-Qaeda threat...
...trust the water you drink? Marc Edwards, a Virginia Tech civil-engineering professor and water-corrosion expert, is determined to answer that question. In March 2003 he was working on a pinhole leak in the plumbing of a private home in Washington when he heard talk of elevated lead levels in the local water. He decided to test some samples, and the results shocked him. "One sample was so high it was off the scale...
...corporate manager with a mortgage and an eye on the next quarter is feeling it too. Yet today's superstressed pro coaches can offer lessons for beleaguered bosses. "Coaching is a rare profession that is very clear-cut, where the results are instantaneous," says Sam Karson, a stress-management expert and former chief psychologist for the Federal Aviation Administration and its frazzled air-traffic controllers. "It's important to know how these guys program themselves to take risks, to confront pressure...