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...ordinary person in an extraordinary situation. "It has to have an aspirational quality," explains Disney Channel Worldwide President Rich Ross. The idea for a show about a teen girl leading a double life as a pop star had the right fantasy quotient for the target audience. "Celebrity is huge for kids because of the sense of empowerment. Especially with all the reality shows now on TV," says executive producer Steven Peterman...
...Cyrus takes her newfound success in stride. She says she understands why Hannah Montana is so popular. "Kids relate to it," Cyrus told TIME. "They see Miley Stewart as a normal girl with a huge dream. It shows them never to give up on their dreams, which is a cool thing...
...chicken marsala—are skinless. The research team, led by Harvard School of Public Health Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Dominique S. Michaud, analyzed two well-known cohort studies, the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. The research was unique for its huge sample size—47,422 men and 88,471 women—and for examining the consumption of specific types of meat in relation to bladder cancer, Michaud wrote in an e-mail. The study used questionnaires to survey participants’ food consumption over a period...
...lives. Richard M. Valenci Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, U.S. As a mother, I shuddered to read Madonna's pathetically low benchmark for motherhood: "Even if I'm the worst mother in the world, I'm better than death!" The comment was insensitive and reeked of arrogance. While Madonna's giving huge sums of money to charity is laudable, one needs an entirely different set of skills to be a good mother to an adopted child. I wonder how much Madonna understands that. Madhuri Pai Singapore Proliferating Primates Re "Way too much monkey business" [Nov. 13], on the overpopulation of rhesus macaques...
...criticized “out-of-scale” presidential salaries before—he wrote in a 2002 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education that “a huge presidential salary tends to exacerbate tensions that too often exist between faculty and administration.” But he said yesterday that he did not mean to send a broader message by doing his job for free this year...