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...convened at an intersection of a major expressway. I assumed we would head to someone's house, but my friends had something else in mind. In four cars, we took off down the highway, going 60 miles an hour, swerving to get close enough so I could pass a cocktail made of whiskey with mulberry nectar out the passenger-side window of our Korean hatchback to a friend in one of the other cars. Our stereo screeched Shaggy's Hey Sexy Lady; theirs, insipid Lebanese pop. Tehran, with its murals of suicide bombers, Versace billboards and rickety buses adorned with...
...after surviving the cocktail hour from hell, I attended a practice session of 127, Iran's hottest underground rock band. Because the regime still pretends to oppose the toxic culture of the West, rock music is semi-taboo, so the band rehearses in a soundproof bunker inside an abandoned greenhouse in a low-rise complex of concrete apartment blocks on the outskirts of the city. The band members compare themselves with writers in Soviet Russia--miserably creative, creatively miserable. They sing in English and dress in the uniform of global grunge: long sideburns, faded Converse sneakers and plaid shirts...
...burning enough calories or moving our bodies enough to maintain good health. "We have two epidemics in this country. One is obesity, the other is physical inactivity," laments Dr. Tim Church, medical director of the Cooper Institute, a fitness research center in Dallas. "One is a topic of cocktail conversation and the focus of bestselling books. The other is ignored...
...fashion-designer vocabulary," says Robert Burke, fashion director of the high-end emporium Bergdorf Goodman. Indeed, hip beach separates--especially tunics by designers like TRB by Tory Burch and Lilly Pulitzer--have migrated from the beach to the street and now even show up as evening wear at cocktail hour...
...American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) last week, including one out of UCLA Medical School that showed that Celebrex, used in combination with newer cancer drugs, was successful in treating patients with late-stage lung cancer. In 9 out of 15 patients whose prior treatments had failed, the Celebrex cocktail either stopped the disease from progressing or shrank their tumors. In cancer circles, that is an impressive result...