Money from broadcasters and sponsors inflates pay packets to eye-popping dimensions, especially when an attractive image meets sporting brilliance.

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Many people have a way of "fooling their inner eye" to believe they are more successful or attractive than they really are, Dr. Trivers says.

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The NX1000 is highly portable and its eye-catching compact design makes it as useable as it is attractive.

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' In his absence, as the disc jockey began playing 'Cathy's Clown, ' I noticed an attractive young girl wearing a white patch over her left eye seated in a parked red convertible.

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The attractive German soprano has a rich, almost venomous voice and a gimlet eye, conveying both the demonic and seductive sides of her character.

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An attractive stranger with a lightning laugh jaywalks between cars with a friend, making eye contact before scurrying inside.

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