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What a week. Well, maybe not, but, still, the news of the world summoned up the usual apprehension and puzzlement. Paul Wolfowitz, Robert Iger, the brothers Giambi, Lil' Kim: how is a guy to make sense of it all?
A fresh approach is always welcome. A few months ago, a stay-at-home dad named Ian Van Tuyl introduced one, in a book called "Popstrology." Popstrology is a system for achieving self-awareness through the study of the pop-music charts--specifically, by determining which pop song was No. 1 on the day of your birth. If, for example, you happen to have been hatched during that brief, blissful period in October, 1976, when the airwaves were ruled by "Disco Duck," you may have inherited from its creators, the opportunistic d.j. Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots, an ability "to parlay simple needs and even modest gifts into the precise degree of greatness to which you aspire." (As it happens, 1976 was the Year of...
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