Celebrity appeal

Well, that was easy for him to say. He had all the ingredients that celebrity appeal requires (see Figure 19-2) ... 

A mostly flat 35 square miles of scrub-covered limestone puddled with salt ponds, Anguilla derives her considerable sex appeal from working what she s got 33 spectacular beaches. Whitewashed, Mediterranean-style luxury resorts like Cap Juluca, Cove Castles and CuisinArt rise above the bleach-white sand to strike poses against blue sea and sky, attracting a tony, celebrity-studded clientele. And the quality of restaurants... 

St. John s wort has become a sort of herbal celebrity in America, because of its strong reputation as a natural antidepressant. It particularly appeals to people who do not like taking medicine or do not like the idea of needing synthetic chemicals to cure a case of the blues. St. John s wort is not FDA-regulated as it is not a considered a real medication. Since St. John s wort does not require a prescription, people... 

In solid-state physics, theorists are dealing with many-electron systems where "many mean billions not just dozens as in molecular theories. This means that methods based on the electron density are much more widely used and much more intuitively appealing. Their constant efforts to develop such methods have been rewarded by a series of amazing theorems showing that it is possible to obtain the exact electron density without having recourse to the wavefunction. Naturally, these results have been taken up with some enthusiasm by workers in the field of molecular electronic structure. In this chapter the celebrated Kohn-Hohenberg-Sham approach is developed and its close relationship to the Hartree-Fock model is used to indicate how it can be implemented. The very different intuitions" of chemists and physicists about electronic structure generates some tensions in the interpretation of the results of these theories. 

In The Violent Ones, Starkey rejects Bond s celebration of sadism and the constant appeal to violence as the solution of every conflict between so-called good and obvious evil. There seems to be on every hand—newspaper editors, teen-age hooligans, legionnaires, and repressed minorities who are itching to fight on the slightest provocation. The Christian ethic does provide alternatives to violence for the sake of honor or pleasure, and... provide[s] a motivation and capacity to love and be loved (ibid 12). 

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