Word: armchair
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...Silicon Valley connection that led Wired magazine to run its geek-syndrome feature last December. The story was basically a bit of armchair theorizing about a social phenomenon known as assortative mating. In university towns and R.-and-D. corridors, it is argued, smart but not particularly well-socialized men today are meeting and marrying women very like themselves, leading to an overload of genes that predispose their children to autism, Asperger's and related disorders...
Having garnered a fanatical following in her native Britain, Lawson, 42, a sensual anti-Martha Stewart, is sauteing and simmering her amateur way into the hearts of armchair cooking enthusiasts in the U.S. Hers are among the best-selling cookbooks in the nation, and her TV series, Nigella Bites--which airs on the Style network and E!--seems as popular with Yanks as it was with the Brits. Now this single mom is working on another cooking series, Forever Summer, slated for the Style network this fall...
...which they founded together in 1989 and which has grown into a business that sold close to $70 million worth of furniture last year. That may sound paltry next to the hundreds of millions pulled in by such A-list retailers as Pottery Barn, Crate & Barrel and Restoration Hardware (armchair giant La-Z-Boy did $2.6 billion in sales last year). But guess who makes most of their upholstered furniture? And the leather club chairs and slipcover sofas in Ally McBeal and Friends? Mitchell Gold...
Despite his denials, Gauguin too was haunted by Van Gogh. In the years after Arles, he painted a number of sunflowers (Still Life with Sunflowers on an Armchair; Caribbean Woman), which came to symbolize his latent appreciation of Van Gogh's talent. Blühm believes those weeks in Arles gave each artist the strength to follow the convictions of his own art in ways that would have been impossible without the intimacy they shared and eventually rejected. It was a destructive relationship in many ways, but one that left an indelible mark on two of the best-known artists...
FASTER, HIGHER, STRONGER There's no gold medal for online Olympic coverage, but we armchair athletes at TIME.com have done our best to prepare our users for the Winter Games. The results are online this week in our special preview section on the Salt Lake City Olympic Games. You will find profiles of some of the unique athletes you'll be watching on TV, a photo essay on the beautiful environs of Park City, Utah, and an extensive archive of TIME's past Olympic coverage. Plus, an online essay by Walter Kirn about the Mormon ideal vs. the Olympic ideal...