Funny lead ... from today's Boston Globe:

Boston is renowned nationally for its hospitals, its universities, its beloved Fenway Park.

Now add mediocre-looking men to the list.

For "Average Joe: Hawaii," the new season of the hit television reality series -- in which 18 ordinary-looking bachelors will woo a former beauty queen -- NBC deliberately targeted Boston and selected almost half of the show's contestants from the area.

http://www.boston.com/yourlife/relationships/articles/2003/12/24/nbc_looks_to_boston_for_more_average_joes/