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Talking about the marathon, seeing the beautiful weather, I’m really excited. On our way to Hopkinton Mimi mentions a woman who once got a 108-degree fever and brain damage while running a marathon...
...urban ozone, the result of stronger sunlight and warmer temperatures, could worsen respiratory illnesses. More frequent hot spells could lead to a rise in heat-related deaths. Warmer temperatures could widen the range of disease-carrying rodents and bugs, such as mosquitoes and ticks, increasing the incidence of dengue fever, malaria, encephalitis, Lyme disease and other afflictions. Worst of all, this increase in temperatures is happening at a pace that outstrips anything the earth has seen in the past 100 million years. Humans will have a hard enough time adjusting, especially in poorer countries, but for wildlife, the changes could...
...Other businesses—and it’s my argument that the majority of failed and struggling dotcoms fit in this category—simply got seduced by the land grab rhetoric of 1998 and 1999. In the middle of Web hype fever, startups were going to take over the world in 18 months, and anyone who wasn’t burning cash by the barrel to get an early lead was dead meat. Consider Kozmo.com. Their idea—Web-based, immediate delivery of videos, food and certain household goods—certainly encountered strong demand, especially...
...Kerrville, 100 miles due west of Austin, it's easy to catch the fever. At Joe's Jefferson Street Cafe, cell phones of Realtors chirp away during lunch with calls from buyers willing to dole out $3 million to $4 million for hardscrabble land with little productive value. "Cost is not an object," marvels appraiser Billy Snow, cutting into his chicken-fried steak. Architectural firms such as Kerrville's Artisan Group are busy building homes as big as country clubs with private jetports. "People have built castles, actual castles," says Kerr County's chief appraiser, Fourth Coates. "They even change...
...Disco didn't really cross over until '77, when the BeeGees made it safe for the multititudes with the breakout tracks on "Saturday Night Fever". But by '76, here's what they were asking for in the dance clubs: Vickie Sue Robinson's "Turn the Beat Around"; Silver Convention's "Get Up and Boogie"; Donna Summer's "Love Trilogy" (an LP, and every cut was getting played); The Trammps' "That's Where the Happy People Go"; and the fabulous Andrea True's "More More More" (a tune that will never be removed from my desert-island jukebox...