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...what if-just for argument's sake-you got insanely rigorous about it. You went to all the big-name authors in the world-Franzen, Mailer, Wallace, Wolfe, Chabon, Lethem, King, 125 of them- and got each one to cough up a top-10 list of the greatest books of all time. We're talking ultimate-fighting-style here: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, modern, ancient, everything's fair game except eye-gouging and fish-hooking. Then you printed and collated all the lists, crunched the numbers together, and used them to create a definitive all-time Top Top 10 list...
...Christian University, where he led the nation in rushing in consecutive years. "The ball would lie in his arms like a girlfriend," says Tomlinson's younger brother LaVar, 24. "And I can never remember that ball being on the floor." He who fails to fumble in slumber won't cough it up in consciousness. In the crucial area within 20 yds. of the opponent's goal line, Tomlinson has touched the ball more than 400 consecutive times without surrendering it, according to the Elias Sports Bureau...
Consumers know by now they are at risk of identity theft, of "phishing" e-mail attacks and of other scams designed to get them to cough up their account information (and then, too often, the contents of that account). Fake heists show that customers aren't the only weak link in the chain. "We have hacked into every single online banking application that we've tested, except one," says Stickley. So even if you follow all the rules--never respond to an e-mail purporting to be from a bank, shred every piece of paper containing personal information, only return...
...Cough syrups can damage children's teeth, and it's not necessarily the sweeteners in them that do it. Many over-the-counter remedies that contain antihistamines are slightly acidic in nature, and a new study showed that this acid can cause cavities in healthy tooth enamel. Fortunately, fluoride counteracts the problem, so make sure your children brush their teeth after swallowing cough syrup. Also try giving the medication with meals, when the body's natural production of saliva helps protect the teeth...
...lives in cities, where the standard of living tends to be higher, whereas 90% of the population of the northern Indian state of Bihar still lives in villages. And if you're wondering what life in an Indian village is like, Luce describes it vividly: "The tubercular hacking cough is as common a sound in the north Indian village as the lowing of the cattle or the ringing of the temple bell...