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You're correct about the trend. Find some unrelated aspect of the person's life, and include it in the headline to make the person more interesting.

Randall Munroe has made fun of this and similar headline-writing trends:

http://xkcd.com/1283/



You mean "Former NASA roboticist Randall Munroe"? ;)




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