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HOST The somber camp counselor Jeff Probst SETTING Rat-infested island near Borneo ELIMINATED CONTESTANT Sonja Christopher, 62, voted off the island for being "weakest link" VIEWERS TUNED IN To see if anyone...
...there's one thing the memory mavens want to teach you, it's how to remember names, and the best way to do it is visually. When you first meet someone, look for a defining facial feature and then link it to the person's name--the more absurdly, the better. If you meet a Mr. Kannen who has prominent ears, suggests Lorayne, picture a cannon shooting off the ears. If you meet a Mr. Hamper with a wide mouth, picture filling the mouth with laundry. It's hard to say whether these peyote-button images will do much...
SMOKING GUM Doctors have known there's a relationship between smoking and gum disease, but until now they haven't known just how strong the link really is. A report on 12,000 adults shows that smoking quadruples the risk of periodontal disease and is responsible for more than half of all cases of severe gum disease. The only bright spot: quitting can bring a smoker's risk down to that of someone who has never lit up--though it may take 10 years...
...Christopher, 63, a charming woman who brought a ukulele to the island. Christopher doubts she fell to ageism but says, "At that point, strength and endurance were very important...If I were twentysomething and saw a 63-year-old woman, I probably would assume she'd be the weak link." Judging from the expulsion vote, Boesch might soon follow: Christopher barely edged him out. And (spoiler alert!) though neither contestants nor CBS will say who gets bumped when, the Kansas City Star reported that B.B. Andersen, 64, of Mission Hills, Kans., returned home early in the show's taping...
...attend a surprise birthday fete for mom Barbara and work on his convention speech with some advisers, Bush found himself standing at the front door and telling reporters - one more time - that those 131 people deserved to die. The Texas criminal justice system in which Bush is the last link "adequately answered innocence or guilt" in the death row cases on his watch, Bush insisted again Sunday. But the reporters are digging, and the corpses they find are telling a different tale...