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...they're also really, really mad that cast members had the unmitigated gall to catch fish (yes, fish!) in the waters surrounding their island prison...
...froze a household pet that I began to worry about my memory. Technically, it was not a real household pet I froze but a bag of tropical fish, which on the scale of beloved members of any home rank somewhere below the family cat and above an attractive set of coasters. And technically, I didn't completely freeze my fish. Rather, I absentmindedly tossed them into the refrigerator with a bag of other things I had bought and fortunately retrieved them just before my highly sensitive aquarium fish could turn into lightly breaded dinner fish...
Nonetheless, that near-death experience--for the fish, if not for me--woke me up to the fact that my memory might not be all it once was. At the outset, I should say that when it comes to incipient memory loss, I've got good reason to worry. I'm in my mid-40s, the age at which most no-longer-babyish boomers begin to notice that many of the faculties they used to take for granted--eyesight, stamina, the ability to fit into slim-cut khakis--are starting to go. If those things fade, why shouldn't memory...
...soften her up, Barak wowed Albright with an elaborate Japanese-themed dinner at the prime minister's residence and Arafat stuffed her with a lamb-and-fish lunch at his Ramallah office. But Albright still delivered a tough message. Time is running out with this administration. Both men have to accept the fact that ?neither side can get a hundred percent of what it wants,? she said. ?The tough decisions that must be made won't become any easier? the longer the two of them dither...
...mindset of the committee was that we were better off teaching [workers]to fish--we can give them a fish today, but what next year and the year after that," Zeckhauser says. "We didn't see it as a wage problem, and we didn't think an extra $2 an hour would address...