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...concerned. I'm like some bizarro opera fan who comes for the plot and heads for the bar when the aria commences. My latest struggle with Morpheus (whose embrace, I did manage to avoid) occurred at The Incredible Hulk. You know who he is, of course. He's mild-mannered (but extremely fit) Bruce Banner (Edward Norton, who bulks up to hulk proportions when he gets angry or excited, which is pretty frequently). The guy's so touchy, he's even afraid to have sex with his girlfriend, Betty (Liv Tyler) for fear of turning green, nasty and enormous. This...
...There have been 13 outbreaks of salmonella in tomatoes since 1990, which puts the fruit on the list of high-risk foods that are prone to infection. But unlike the bagged spinach from the 2006 E. Coli scare, the tomatoes don't come with a traceable bar code. "When you're dealing with tomatoes, it is much, much more complex," explains Dr. David Acheson, the FDA's associate commissioner for foods. The FDA's great tomato hunt has an ever-expanding list of suspects. A salmonella victim can point to the supermarket (or restaurant) that sold the offending fruit...
...maintain any kind of perspective on what a real person is supposed to look like. And while that's long been true for girls, it's increasingly true for boys, who now must measure themselves against waxed and buff athletes and models who are steadily raising the male-attractiveness bar higher and higher...
...always seemed to lose connectivity just when I was about to send a crucial e-mail--it's embarrassing to run down a city street waving your laptop around like a crazy person, but it's amazing how unselfconscious you get when you have to find one lousy bar of wi-fi in the next two minutes or you're going to get fired. (A website called ThinkGeek.com sells a T shirt with a battery-powered wi-fi detector that displays the ambient signal strength wherever you happen to be standing. It's supercool, though if I'm too cheap...
Marriott's Courtyard and Hilton's Garden Inn, currently the leaders in the upscale sector, don't plan on letting these trends pass them by. Marriott redesigned the lobby of its Fair Oaks, Va., location with a bar, communal-seating areas and a snack area. "It used to be that guests went in the room and latched the door," says Brian King of Courtyard. "Now they want to come out." The new design will be rolled out at most of the 700 locations by 2010. Like Aloft, Marriott is also eliminating the long, chest-high check-in desk, replacing...