Word: bumpers
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...many Afghan farmers have apparently chosen to switch out of opium. The reasons might lie in simple market factors of supply and demand. In the years immediately following the Taliban's ouster in 2001, Afghan farmers, who had languished under a temporary Taliban ban against growing poppies, produced huge bumper crops. Those were harvested just as drug users in Europe, opium's biggest market, began to shun heroin in favor of cocaine and synthetic drugs like ecstasy. "There is definitely an issue of stocks over consumption," Costa says. "Starting in about 2006 Afghanistan has been producing a lot more opium...
...influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright. So it was some strange amalgam of those two things. I can remember I used to do this joke about, I was driving down whatever street the other day, and this woman in the car in front of me had this ridiculous bumper sticker. It was like, "Follow me to Tennessee." And then people chuckle or whatever, and I pause and go, "So we got into Nashville...
...last day in Lahore was Aug. 14, Pakistan’s Independence Day. As midnight approached, Pakistanis, primarily of the lower and middle classes, flooded the city’s streets, jamming them with bumper-to-bumper traffic. People sat atop motorbikes and stuck their heads out of soapbox car windows, dancing and singing, drunk on patriotism. As I stared out the car window, I wondered what these people had to celebrate. Sixty-two years after Pakistan was founded, its future remains uncertain, and frankly, it is completely out of the hands of these average people...
...needed any more proof that looking good has its limits, it comes later this month - Aug. 28, to be exact - from an unlikely source: Vogue. In a new documentary, The September Issue, about the creation of the magazine's bumper September issue, the biggest revelation is that the women who have the most important jobs there, apart from editor Anna Wintour, do not look all that glamorous. They don't wear much makeup. Their outfits are unremarkable. They work really hard and get pretty scruffy doing it; the magazine's chief creative genius, 68-year-old Grace Coddington, spends most...
Some impatient motorists grumbled about the President, made U-turns and headed the opposite direction. Others were not as troubled by the inconvenience. In a white Mazda with an "Obama '08" bumper sticker, Ricardo and Mary Zubiate decided to return home through Yellowstone to Salt Lake City, Utah, after a conference in Montana. "Just knowing he's here and enjoying the same day in the Park as me is exciting," said Ricardo. "I'm thrilled he's here, and we'd love to see him. And, yes, I'm still 100% convinced that he's the right person...