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...first video game I ever purchased, and no doubt the initiation of many gamers of our Halo-fed generation, was that awe-inspiring trifecta of pixilated pleasures: the Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt / World Class Track Meet combo pack. While some wondered how so much power could fit into a single plastic cartridge and others mulled over what drug-fortified madness put two Italian plumbers in a world of angry, portly mushrooms, the rest of us stopped thinking altogether and rocked the Power Pad. That Power Pad, an ungainly gray spread dotted with red and blue circles (with white shine...
...effects on the heart. That hasn't stopped some athletes from trying it. "I'm convinced that some athletes are using a combination of IGF-1 and human growth hormone," says Nadia Rosenthal, an IGF-1 researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Rome. The theory behind the combo is that human growth hormone signals the liver to secrete more IGF-1, keeping blood levels high. "These athletes know a little bit about how [the hormones] work, and for them, a millisecond could be the difference between gold or nothing," she says. What they don't seem to realize...
This summer a crop of new hybrid fruits is turning up at the grocery store. Mango-nectarines, above, combine the taste of a mango with the texture of a nectarine. Also new is the Nectacotum Pluot, a combo of nectarine and pluot, which is itself a cross between plums and apricots. And this is the first season that mini-watermelons are available. They can be 25% as large as the standard variety and up to 50% sweeter. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...LITCHFIELD JAZZ FESTIVAL SUMMER MUSIC SCHOOL in Connecticut offers lessons in jazz theory and playing in a combo, and has started a dance workshop...
Hybrid High They're cool, clean and don't gulp gas. Combo cars find a market...