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A: It's too early to tell.

As ex-coach Don Shula says in this article: "You can't say that yet. He's still relatively early in his career."

American Photo: "Is Pam Art?"

A: Yes.

The Pam in question is not the popular aerosol cooking spray, it's Pamela Anderson, the "Baywatch" babe and former Playboy centerfold.

In 2000, Sante D'Orazio photographed Pam for Playboy but the photos never ran. Then D'Orazio injured his knee playing basketball and he got depressed and sat on his couch eating Doritos until he looked at his Pam photos and decided, "She was the earth goddess the Greeks called Demeter and the Romans called Ceres; she was Shekinah of Jewish mysticism; she was Eve and her apple; Mona Lisa and her smile."

That revelation got him up off his couch. He exhibited his Pam photos in a gallery and published them in a book called "Pam: American Icon." An essay in the book asks, "Why did the Taliban blow up two colossal Buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan?" The answer: "Because they couldn't get to Pamela Anderson." You read this article and you wonder: Is this just an excuse to run pictures of Pam naked?

Reader's Digest: "Just a Headache . . . Or Worse?"

A: It depends.

Sure, that throbbing, pounding pain in your brain could be a simple headache. But it could be a migraine. Or it could be a stroke. Or meningitis. Or an aneurism. The Digest's sage advice: "See your doctor."


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