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...simple solution: make sure they eat a hearty meal before they hit the bars. Patrick Kilcarr of Georgetown finds that nutrition information can be an effective tool. He asks the women he sees to tell him what they drink on a given night; then he pulls out a small chalkboard and crunches the numbers for them. "They are often flabbergasted to see they're drinking 3,000 calories in an evening," he says. "These are women who eat salads and starve themselves all week. Once they see it visually, they begin to shift the choices they're making...
...Chapstick to turn it off, only for it—or another—to go off five minutes later. And I love the people who are too humiliated to take responsibility, instead simply allowing the phone to complete a cycle of four or five irritating, nails-on-chalkboard bastardizations of classical music...
...West’s corny delivery, such as his indictment of slaves’ having been forced to work on ‘ugly plantations’...It’s when the music is at its most awkward that the album hits its low points. Nails-on-chalkboard synthesizers drive the horrible backing tracks of ‘Stolen King’ (an anti-slavery screed that sounds like a bad Prince imitation) and ‘3Ms’ (Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X).” (Steve Holtje, CDNOW Senior Editor, Comedy/Spoken Word...
Three months after the attacks, there are only brief flashes of reality. Mike returns to work at the firehouse, but the reminders of Sept. 11 are everywhere. The chalkboard still bears the names and assignments of those on duty that morning. Guys show off their new 9/11 tattoos memorializing their housemates; one depicts a helmet, another the Ladder 11 company patch. A masseuse stands by to give free massages; there are free tickets to the Broadway show The Music Man and a lottery for trips to Hawaii and Barbados. To unwind one evening after inspecting a gas leak, the firemen...
...third-graders have taped Mike's photograph to the chalkboard. One girl gasps when he walks in, several blink to make sure he's actually real. They all want his autograph in their notebooks and on stray math work sheets. "Will you sign my baseball?" asks one boy. Then the students take turns standing next to Mike and reading aloud Christmas cards they have made for him to take back to the firehouse...