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...proficient at mathematics that he spotted calculation errors in presentations. "I expected him to say, 'Your numbers are wrong,'" Ferraris recalls. "Instead, he said, 'Eight billion, 11 billion, 14 billion--it's all the same.'" Stunned, Ferraris urged Tanzi to call a meeting with the company's banks to explain the debt problem. Tanzi refused, Ferraris quit, and a few weeks later, on Dec. 19, Europe's biggest corporate scam was exposed. Parmalat confirmed that an account it had claimed to have at Bank of America with $4.9 billion in cash did not, in fact, exist...
...women's cells had higher levels of free radicals, a type of highly reactive molecule that can damage DNA. One might argue that women whose children were born with those disorders already had something wrong with their DNA and that stress wasn't the cause. But that wouldn't explain another crucial fact: the degree of cellular damage was highest in women who had been caring for a disabled child the longest. "We tried our hardest to make the result go away," says Blackburn, "because we wanted to make sure we weren't fooling ourselves. But we couldn...
...unexpected, ironic presence in a powerful politician's office--Twain assumed that all politicians were felonious--and Reid's explanation that the pseudonym Mark Twain was born in Nevada because Samuel Langhorne Clemens took his first newspaper job at the Virginia City, Nev., Territorial Enterprise doesn't fully explain the place of honor...
...steroids are far more dangerous than, say, carb loading. That justification would be far more convincing if there were any evidence that fans and teams otherwise give two snorts about athletes' health. But that wouldn't explain how we tolerate, for example, football linemen larding up to heart-straining proportions and players hobbling themselves for life by "playing through the pain" (i.e., getting taped and numbed by the team doc). Or jockeys nearly killing themselves to drop weight. Or the very existence of boxing...
There are exceptions. Democrats are more likely to go to art museums. They also skew toward cognac, which usually costs more than whiskey, the G.O.P. choice. Party demographics help explain that difference: black men have appreciated cognac since the 1970s, even before Jay-Z embraced it, while whiskey has a long history in red states like Kentucky. Sure enough, at the G.O.P. Convention this year, the most requested drink was Maker's Mark whiskey. The Democratic winner was too close to call. "The Kahlúa White House Russian was a big favorite with the ladies, Courvoisier XO cognac with...