Word: clog
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...Dolly Parton's second fling with bluegrass follows on the clog heels of last year's excellent "The Grass Is Blue," and if it falls a bit short of its predecessor's headlong exhilaration, it still delivers a good helping of the right stuff. Chief among its virtues is the killer band that Parton has mostly retained from the first album, especially the remarkable Jerry Douglas on dobro and Stuart Duncan on fiddle. The ease with which these young veterans propel winners such as "Seven Bridges Road" carries over to and elevates less inspiring selections like Collective Soul's "Shine...
...more, watched our weight and stopped eating so much food that is high in saturated fat. Public-health experts estimate that you can reduce your risk of heart disease as much as 80% by adopting a healthy lifestyle. But as long as our culture and our genes conspire to clog our arteries and strain our hearts, it's good to know that there will be some powerful drugs to help undo the damage...
...Interstate Class Action Jurisdiction Act of 1999," which passed the House Sept. 23, 1999, would have forced almost all class-action suits into an already clogged federal court system. Worse still, the bill would have unilaterally imposed federal standards onto state class-action claims, meaning that many cases previously heard as state class actions--often involving the environment, civil rights or consumer protections--would be sent to federal court, divided up into thousands of individual cases and sent back to the states to clog their courts as well. No wonder the Conference of Chief Justices, whose state courts would...
Billie Stewart, 64, of Asheville keeps a sticky pad in her car, and when she thinks of an errand that needs to be done, she jots it down. "If I write down bakery," she says, "I can let go of it and don't have to clog up my memory." Written reminders aren't cheating. Far from it. They make it easier for the brain to handle a larger quantity of information. Technology gives us an increasing number of things to remember--PIN numbers, passwords, all those pesky dotcom names--but at the same time provides excellent aids...
...making things," says Richard Meier, who designed the Getty Center in Los Angeles. "Technology gives us the ability for a continual exploration of that question 'How do we come down to the essence of things?'" What worries some people is that a few decades of promiscuous creativity will clog the world with second-rate imitation Gehrys, strenuously entertaining streetscapes and Times Squares in every town square. "The Guggenheim in Bilbao is a unique object," says Robert Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture. "Three Bilbaos in a row would be a fun house." So if the fun gets...