Word: feds
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...less sexy than mole removal, except perhaps when it comes to Elton John, a man who has made a virtue of his myopia. John claims to have amassed 4,000 pairs of glasses during his career, but now, he says, he's grown weary of specs: "I'm so fed up with 'Where are they?'" he said in a television interview, explaining why he's having the eye procedure done early next year. Look for 4,000 pairs of glasses to hit eBay sometime soon...
...lies in exactly what should have made it a flop: its mundanity. Instead of transporting players to another place and time, it offers them familiar, everyday situations. The object of the game, to the extent that it has one, is to keep your Sims--your digital alter egos--well fed, solvent, healthy, entertained and, in short, happy. The game never formally ends: you can keep on living your simulated life as long as you like...
...fishery in Delphi on the west coast of Ireland, discovered that young trout returning to his river from the ocean were covered with lice that were boring through the trouts' skin and feasting on their flesh. The sea lice were breeding near newly installed salmon farms in the inlet fed by his river. By the time the salmon farmers started dosing their pens with anti-sea-lice chemicals, the sea-trout fisheries of the west of Ireland were effectively dead. "Sea-trout fishing was sustainable and eco-friendly," says Mantle, "but the salmon farms killed it off within a decade...
...first possession of the third quarter, the Harvard offense, fed by a steady dose of runs from Fitzpatrick and senior tailback Nick Palazzo, mustered a six-play, 29-yard drive, capped off by a 4-yard touchdown scamper by Fitzpatrick to pull ahead of the Bulldogs...
...first possession of the third quarter, the Harvard offense, fed by a steady dose of runs from Fitzpatrick and senior tailback Nick Palazzo, mustered a six-play, 29-yard drive, capped off by a 4-yard touchdown scamper by Fitzpatrick to pull ahead of the Bulldogs...