I'm long past the stage where I'll buy a magazine to look at the swimsuit models (when I was an adolescent, I'd sometimes steal horror comics and skin magazines from the local luncheonette and divide the pictures and comics up with my friends, most of whom were inept thieves in comparison to me; sometimes, though, I'd get spooked at the thought of more shoplifting and, because I was way too young to legitimately buy skin magazines, I'd have to rely on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models issue to relieve my feverish horniness). Because of the 2004 Tsunami story, though, I became aware of Nemcova in a way that I'm not aware of other models...swimsuit, "super", or whatever...and, in addition to thinking her a very brave and determined young woman, found her incredibly cute as well (not to mention very nicely shaped). It hasn't inspired me to go back out again and buy the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models issue like some dirty old man (as opposed to a horny adolescent boy), but I did buy her autobiography (cheap) on Amazon, and found her to be sweeter and less full-of-herself than you might expect a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model to be. Not that I'm going to be following her career, but it is nice to know that just because there might be some snow on the roof doesn't mean there isn't still a bit of a fire in the hearth (ok, it's corny, but what else am I gonna say?).