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...first meetings with bureaucrats in Nagano, an official took Tanaka's name card, and folded it with a sharp crease. In Japan, that's a way of reminding yourself to toss the card in the trash when you get home?an open gesture of disrespect. Tanaka now carries a fat wad of business cards with him and when he hands one out, he's quick to say, "Go ahead, bend it. I like breaking the rules." Tanaka will try to break the status quo?if the status quo doesn't ultimately break...
...Britain's cosmetic surgery industry seems to have been injected with a strong growth hormone. Even non-specialist doctors are routinely filling in unsightly wrinkles, puffing up thin lips and sucking out unwanted fat. The research firm Mintel estimates that 72,000 procedures were performed last year, up 31% since 1995, and that the value of the market has risen from $158 million to $216 million...
...large part by new, less costly "quick fix" techniques that don't involve major surgery: botox injections that temporarily eradicate facial lines, derma-fills that smooth out wrinkles and scars and build up lips and cheeks, and laser beams that zap away lines. Liposuction, the process of vacuuming fat from the body, is gaining in popularity thanks to advances in keyhole surgery and other less intrusive techniques...
Send the architects south. Silicon Valley may be powerless and profitless, but Houston, the nation's energy capital and home to the oil-baron excesses of the 1980s, is back in "bidness." The energy giants in Texas have big fat wallets these days--and even bigger construction plans. Not since the boom days of 1982, when trophy architects like Philip Johnson and I.M. Pei reconfigured the skyline, has Houston seen so much construction activity by the energy sector...
...killed their mother. But then I saw her lounging around the maple, as if in a housecoat, and decided she's just a lousy mother. Or perhaps it was Mother who perished in the attic. Maybe the cats ate the baby squirrels - delicacies, no doubt, like sushi. The cats, fat as pashas, having yet to shed the opulent fur they acquired in the long cold winter, sit motionless, an hour at a time, under the maple, hoping to pounce on a careless songbird. But the cats will settle for red squirrels, which themselves lie in wait and hope to kill...