Word: ately
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...stuff--or at least the saccharin it contained did. According to studies at the time, saccharin was a direct cause of bladder cancer. Of course, in order for the sweetener to do you harm, it had to make up at least 3% of the gross weight of food you ate every day--no easy task for a substance consumed by the quarter-teaspoonful. Oh, and it also helped if you were a laboratory rat, the only creature in which the saccharin-cancer link had ever been conclusively established...
...Reed College, Portland, Ore. At this year's "Renn Fayre," Reedies burned their theses, Jell-O wrestled, ate bugs off one another's skin and flailed to the rock band Paradise Citizens...
...Friday. No "bamboo bicycle that powers a generator," as Hanks puts it. "The influence of Gilligan's Island on our national psyche has been extremely powerful." To prepare, Broyles spent a few days with experienced survivalists on a remote Mexican coast, carving spears to catch sting rays, which he ate raw because he couldn't build a fire...
...world in which no one was dying, no one was being born; a half-life, floating world, a bubble from which she observed and recorded and made of her observations an alternate world of association and image, a world as real to her, as present, as the food she ate. She was too busy now, too tired, too occupied with taking care and keeping up, too drenched in sensation, to think about living, to draw conclusions; she ate to keep going, to stay awake, to stay competent, to be healthy, to feed her baby, to get everything done. The interior...
...outside the former POW prison where he was savagely forced to sign a war-crimes confession, his voice is tinged with the nostalgia others feel for their bright college years. "My cell was over there," he says. "That was the interrogation room. That's where the guards ate." As he speaks, Vietnamese pedestrians walk by and give him and his press entourage quizzical looks. Young boys try to sell him postcards. Though this is the week Vietnam celebrates the 25th anniversary of its victory, in a country where 53% of the population is under 25, the "American...