If this is true, we can say there has finally been an encounter in which Britney Spears is the sympathetic one:
Troubled pop diva Britney Spears reportedly kicked television talk show host "Dr. Phil" McGraw out of her room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Saturday before being released from the facility later in the day, sources told FOXNews.com.
According to sources, Spears responded angrily when the talk show host entered the room and demanded he leave at once.
Research can uncover anything:
Women and gay men are likely to be the worst drivers, a new study has shown.
Research has revealed that both perform poorly in tasks involving navigation and spatial awareness when compared to heterosexual men.
Did you get your Parade magazine in the Sunday paper yesterday? If not, you missed out on some big news:
I've been neglecting my "research into the obvious" lately, so here's a good one:
In a study of nearly 3,000 healthy British adults, lead by Dr. Andrew Steptoe of University College London, found that those who reported upbeat moods had lower levels of cortisol -- a "stress" hormone that, when chronically elevated, may contribute to high blood pressure, abdominal obesity and dampened immune function, among other problems.
I've been neglecting my "research into the obvious" lately, so here's a good one:
In a study of nearly 3,000 healthy British adults, lead by Dr. Andrew Steptoe of University College London, found that those who reported upbeat moods had lower levels of cortisol -- a "stress" hormone that, when chronically elevated, may contribute to high blood pressure, abdominal obesity and dampened immune function, among other problems.
We love symbolic numbers. Remember all the ink given to the DOW crossing 10,000? How about hardcover books going over the $20 threshold? And, of course, there was gas going over $1 a gallon, and $2 a gallon, and $3 a gallon. Now, we have the magic "oil at $100 a barrel" mark. This is almost universally seen as a negative -- The Journal Gazette put it on the top half of the front page. But consider:
I may have to take back what I recently said about time passing beauty contests like Miss America by. This pageant participant certainly is not a dainty 1950s-type queen hopeful:
Remember the great Fort Wayne fake-fish story I made fun of? Apparently, I was a little too quick to judge what may be a developing nationwide scandal:
The brave new world is coming:
If you're younger than 35, you'll probably live long enough to put David Levy's prediction to the test. Levy says that by 2050 we'll be creating robots so lifelike, so imbued with human-seeming intelligence and emotions, as to be nearly indistinguishable from real people. And we'll have sex with these robots. Some of us will even marry them. And it will all be good.
David Letterman and Jay Leno are back, and everybody is happy, though the writers' strike goes on. Letterman is back with his writers, through a special deal, so he and his Top 10 list should be as funny as ever. Leno is back without writers, so his fans will get to see how good he really is on his own.
