Word: excepts
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...much more influential than, say, Alice Waters, the Chez Panisse chef who transformed restaurant cooking? It's because Marthaland is a one-stop shop, for everything from bed to kitchen to garden, where one thing stylishly builds on another. She pulls all this off with total earnestness (except when she is paid to be ironic by American Express, lining her swimming pool with a mosaic of cut-up credit cards). Otherwise, she stays in character: that of a demanding schoolmistress who will be coming around to test for trace elements of bottled dressing in your salade nicoise. When Bryant Gumbel...
Witten didn't invent superstring theory, which posits that the basic building blocks of nature are not tiny particles but unimaginably small loops and snippets of what loosely resembles string--except that the string exists in a bizarre, 10-dimensional universe. The current version of the theory took shape in the late 1960s, when the tall, thin, shy, wispy-voiced scientist was still an undergraduate at Brandeis...
...Weeding, 62. He was also a drinker, and "when he was drinking, he could blame his wife or kids when things went wrong--it was never his fault," she says. Although Ralph swore off alcohol years ago, Ada thinks he's held on to his old way of thinking, except that now he blames the government and the New World Order. By the early '80s, Ralph was railing against high mortgage rates and unfair foreclosures, and in 1982 he appeared on a 20/20 segment with Geraldo Rivera...
...group of regional snack-food companies. Not only did Frito-Lay beat Borden until the cows went home, but the damage was so severe that Borden, once a $5.6 billion independent company, nearly imploded, and was eventually bought by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Borden, having sold all its snack units except for its Wise Foods and Moore's Quality lines, now has a market share of 5%, down from a high...
...understood what he was saying--and I didn't actually understand it very well, because I know nothing about such subjects except that it sounds impressive to use words like redundancy--the Internet is going to do a cyberspace version of burning its little motor out, like a washing machine that has had too many bath towels in it too many times...