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...rigid regimen for every session, and if he changed it, he felt anxious all day. He began to be worried about clothes, and eventually could wear only three shirts, ones that made him look big. He still felt small. "I would sit in class at college with a coat on," he says. You may have heard this condition called bigorexia--thinking your muscles are puny when they aren't. Pope and his colleagues call it muscle dysmorphia and estimate that hundreds of thousands of men suffer from...
...movement of whom toward what, though? That's the puzzle. What's the opposite of globalization? Socialism? Isolationism? Vegetarianism? The answer is all three things, and many more. The radical-chic outfit of the season is a coat of many colors. If you trained a license plate-reading surveillance satellite on Washington last week (or better yet, swept low in a black helicopter), you would have seen bumper stickers, signs and buttons promoting animal rights, organic farming and Pat Buchanan for President. You'd even have seen a soccer ball or two being kicked around by--this is real--something...
When I got hold of one of Microsoft's new Pocket PCs, set for release this week, my first concern was for my coat pockets. The poor things get thoroughly frayed with all the portable equipment I jam into them every morning: CD player, Palm Pilot, e-mail pager, voice recorder, a novel for the train. Pocket PC promises to do the work of all of the above in a single 9-oz. shell (made variously by Compaq, H-P and Casio). Given that my local tailor charges me the equivalent of the national debt of a small country...
With a mountain lion, on the other hand, try intimidation. Again, don't run. Instead, flash him. Hold your coat open so that you appear larger than you actually...
Smith was happy to regale the kids with tales of exotic stakeouts and drug busts. (He spent much of his career in France and North Africa.) And he took special pleasure in pointing out the collection's more unusual artifacts: the Superfly fur coat and alligator-skin platform shoes donned by an agent for a 1970s undercover sting; an unlucky drug lord's diamond-handled revolver; a hollowed-out, lime-green surfboard used to smuggle drugs off the coast of Florida. And there's much more...