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...BEACHES Owning a beach house gives you a fatal heart disease, thereby requiring your orphaned daughter to be raised by saucy Bette Midler...
...jazz music and folded out his futon. We proceeded eagerly if clumsily. The next day I bragged to my roommates about the hook-up, all the more distinguished in my eyes because he was an upperclass student. I felt like the coolest first-year I'd met. My fatal misstep, however, came later that week when, in a roomful of his friends, I snuggled up to him on a couch and took his hand without a second thought. After a second torrid evening, he called me out into the Eliot courtyard to talk--this wasn't going to work...
...buffed-up schoolmarm with murder in his eye. But I would tell Bush that all he has to do is to stay nice and loose, working Gore in a rope-a-dope sort of way, mocking him lightly, and wait for one of those openings that can produce a fatal sound-bite - something along the lines of Lloyd Bentsen's line in 1988: "I knew John Kennedy, and you're no John Kennedy!" (It occurred to no one at the time of that mot, which landed on Dan Quayle's jaw, that to tell a man he was no John...
...size of molecules. At these incredibly tiny distances, the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics take over, permitting electrons to jump from one place to another without passing through the space between. Like water from a leaky fire hose, electrons will spurt across atom-size wires and insulators, causing fatal short circuits...
HEARTTHROB Viagra may be O.K. even if you have heart disease but are otherwise in good shape. Yes, the pills have been linked to heart attacks, some fatal. But a small study on men with severely clogged arteries shows that the drug has no direct detrimental effect on the ticker. The old rule, though, still applies: no Viagra if you're on medication containing nitrates or have recently had a heart attack...