Word: ahem
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...average of 31 in. today. Doesn't sound like much, but remember that the trend in human girth is running opposite: Americans are getting bigger. The cush has been taken out of the cushions too, from 4 in. to 1/2 in., in order to make room for--ahem--more seats. "Transportation is now mass transit," says consultant Boyd. "Consumers are held captive. Travel isn't elegant anymore...
...ever eyed any money as funny as the $20 bills that turned up last summer in local bars and restaurants. Agents traced the bills to a print shop in the basement of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and last month arrested four suspects, including three Columbia dropouts (ahem, they were not journalism students). According to the agents, the suspects taped real 20s to sheets of paper and fed them into a high-quality color copier. Authorities said the men, one of whom worked at the little plant, cranked out more than $85,000 in counterfeit notes, including...
...Everyone has more than just one side. I have a serious side, and I have a funny bone in me," says ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER of his decision to keep making a comedy every other movie, despite the fact that his last, Junior, was, ahem, terminated quickly. "We learned that one cannot turn 180[degrees] away from what people like to see you as," says the star philosophically. His next venture into the world of yuks is Jingle All the Way, in which he plays a harried father trying to find the season's most popular...
...Executive has invited the heads of some 60 companies to the White House to raise the c.r. issue. The timing seems a bit odd. The economy is moving along nicely, it seems, and the unemployment rate is a low 5.4%, courtesy of the more than 8 million jobs created, ahem, in the past 31/2 years. Yet the anxiety rate among workers, still being spit out in huge numbers by a transforming economy, is high enough to give the Democrats a platform. And Clinton will use it to spotlight corporations--Procter & Gamble, Harley-Davidson, Xerox and Starbucks--that the Democrats believe...
There may be a cure for male grouchiness, but the patients have to be very, very grouchy. According to Willis Samson, a physiologist at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine, beneficiaries of the new therapy must suffer from a hormonal disorder that makes them, (ahem) "hypogonadal". The cure: testosterone shots or pills. Though excessive amounts of the hormone hae often been associated with aggressive, antisocial behavior, Samson presented research at the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Los Angeles today showing that men who have too little of the hormone are less grouchy, nervous and irritable after...