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...with a few quirks: after his wife was murdered, he developed obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Now he's germ phobic and afraid of heights--and milk. He can ID a criminal with little more than a sniff of the curtains at a murder scene, but put him near a couch with a crooked pillow, and he can't function until he straightens it. Because of his condition, he was fired from the San Francisco police force. Yet when a tough case comes up, his former colleagues keep calling him back to save their heinies...
...just eager to get a little healthful exercise, there is always the bicycle, which appears to be mounting a comeback. After a slump in the mid-1990s, bicycle production leaped to more than 100 million units in 2000, compared with just 62 million in 1980. But what about couch potatoes who have no willpower to pedal? At least two manufacturers, Aprilia in Italy and Manhattan Scientifics in the U.S., think they have the answer: make the venerable two-wheeler propel itself with its very own fuel cell. --With reporting by Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit
...animals. This "Fritz the Cat" style combines Crumb's two biggest comic influences: the anarchic early issues of "Mad" magazine and the simplicity of the Donald Duck comics. This one stars "Super Duck, The Cockeyed Wonder." Uwanna, "Super Duck's" girlfriend, gets tired of him falling asleep on the couch after making him dinner. So Supes orders some special pills from the back of the "Beat Off" magazine his nephew Fauntleroy gets caught reading. But the pills turn out to be a bit more than Supes can handle. "Blurp!" "Plup!" "Splap!" and "Shlup!" are about the only remaining parts...
...year-old from La Vernia, Texas, in whom ADHD was diagnosed in kindergarten (they did not yet know he was bipolar), took Ritalin and paid the price. "It sent him into depression," says his mother Debbie Kent. "Within a couple of months, he was flat on the couch and wouldn't move." By some estimates, up to 15% of children thought to have ADHD may actually be bipolar...
...Where else can you find 25 guys who have had background and medical checks?" asks Bachelorette's Rehn. Today's dating shows may make love and romance look phony at best, vicious at worst. But isn't that a kind of comfort? After all, if you're on the couch watching somebody go on a date, there's one near certain explanation for it. You're not on one yourself. --With reporting by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles