Word: bacon
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...mortality, the lunch break becomes an exercise in dread. For example, do I want to spend what may be the final hour of my life munching a Cobb salad and reading a book by Al Franken? I look down at my lunch and think, "Oh, my God, this bacon could congeal my arteries at any second, and have these people taken...
FAUX FOREIGN FUNDS Here's a conundrum. Your portfolio should have some foreign exposure. Yet some major global tech funds hold big positions in American companies to mitigate risk. Ironically, that has saved their bacon this year. But if your portfolio is already heavy with U.S. tech stocks, owning one of these "international" funds may not offer the diversification you're seeking...
...tangerines), doughnuts, walnuts, chocolate candy bar, plain potato chips, picante sauce, hot sauce, salad with ranch dressing, Coke and Sprite" before going to meet his maker. A month earlier, Jessy San Miguel, who had killed four people execution-style while robbing a Taco Bell, had asked for "Pizza (beef, bacon bits, and multiple types of cheese), 10 quesadillas (5 mozzarella cheese, 5 cheddar cheese), 5 strips of open-flame grilled beef, 5 strips of stir-fried beef, chocolate peanut butter ice cream, sweet tea, double fudge chocolate cake, broccoli and grapes" before he lay down for the last time...
This is silly. Every schoolboy knows the only worthwhile reason to become invisible is so you can case the girls' locker room undetected. Caine (an utterly charmless Kevin Bacon) does use his power voyeuristically in Hollow Man. But this being an up-to-date--that is to say, thoroughly ugly--movie, he doesn't stop there. He becomes a rapist. And then, of course, a murderer...
...cozy with insurgent leader Dick Armey, who led it. In a safe seat, it's fine to wait until the end of a roll call before deciding whether to give your vote to your district or your leadership, as long as you rise in seniority and bring home the bacon. He has parsed his votes so carefully that the neutral National Journal rates him a moderate, making it hard for Hillary to morph him into Tom DeLay. In fact, last week she edged her position on partial-birth abortion closer to Lazio...