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Last week, model Yumi Nu visited her agent for what she thought was a routine interview and career check in. Sports Illustrated Swimsuit honcho MJ Day and other staffers from the bikini bible popped out with a camera crew as the cover of this year’s magazine, featuring Nu, filled a nearby monitor.

Symone Sanders’ popularity is about as bad as the approval rating of her former boss. The ex-Biden administration official who was most recently a top spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris tanked in her debut this past weekend on MSNBC, according to newly released Nielsen ratings. Sanders drew just 361,000 total viewers for her 4 p.m. show, titled “Symone,” on Saturday. She also managed to attract just 29,000 viewers in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 demographic. The program’s viewership fell well short of Fox News Channel’s “Fox News Live,” which drew 842,000 total viewers, including 163,000 in the 25-54 demographic. Sanders’ debut...

Obesity is more dangerous than smoking and will dramatically shorten the lives of millions, a landmark study has found. While smoking reduces life by an average of ten years, the research says being seriously overweight can cut life expectancy by as much as 13 years. The Foresight report, written by 250 leading scientists, says Britain's obesity crisis is so severe that it would take at least 30 years to reverse. If current trends continue, by 2050 about 60 per cent of men, 50 per cent of women and 25 per cent of children in the UK will be clinically obese...

Bulky man barely injured as car rolls over him Mon Jun 12, 2006 5:13 PM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - A 440 pound German man discovered that being overweight can be good for your health -- if you get run over by a car. German police said the extra body mass prevented the 30-year-old man from suffering potentially fatal injuries when a Volkswagen Polo drove over him after he braked suddenly on his bicycle at a crossroads and fell off in front of the car. "It certainly helped him in this case," said Sven-Marco Claus, a spokesman for police in the...

DENVER - Colorado is getting even more attention from the national presidential campaigns. Elizabeth Edwards, wife of vice presidential candidate John Edwards, will visit Denver and Grand Junction Monday. Edwards will be pushing the campaign's get-out-the-vote theme. She will start in the metro area, stopping at several early voting locations. Her first stop will be at the Safeway at Downing and Evans shortly before 10 a.m. She then heads to Grand Junction for a town hall meeting at Mesa State.