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...green ribbons of urban parks abut rows of gleaming shops, department stores and restaurants. Some of the women out for shopping or dinner have dyed-brown hair piled high with looping curls and ultra-feminine (and frequently pink) outfits replete with bows and frills. These are the "Nagoya Gals," a look that swept Japan last year when Tokyo fashion bible JJ gave it its stamp of approval. "Nagoya Gal Kits" flew off Tokyo department-store shelves, and toymaker Takara released a "Nagoya Gal" edition of Rika-chan, the Japanese equivalent of Barbie. Says Maiko Takagi, editor of Nagoya fashion magazine...
...visual slide that elicited a reaction from the crowd was that of a simple green and white quilt entitled “Lazy Gal.” Made from corduroy, this quilt employed a style which Beardsley dubbed “improvised geometries...
Amid all the booing, however, I am one bachelorette who cheered. As a single woman who would love to meet my own Mr. Right, I was definitely surprised that Jen jilted everyone. When it's tough enough for a single gal to get one date at times, it's hard to imagine spurning not just one but 25 good men. At 37, I have Internet-dated, speed-dated, office-dated and even dated the guy next door. I have come off yearlong dating dry spells only to find myself juggling three maybes at once. I have survived enough romantic catastrophes...
...early 1990s, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, and it's costing millions of dollars more for airlines to haul the heavier load. In a letter to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control calculated that planes burned 350 million gal. more fuel in 2000--at an additional cost of $275 million--than they would have if passengers had weighed on average 10 lbs. less. There's no plan to charge people by the pound--as they do for extra-heavy luggage--but double-width passengers are sometimes asked...
...thing's for certain: we sure love the stuff. There are 167 million coffee drinkers in the U.S., and they consumed nearly 6.3 billion gal. last year alone. The average drinker admits to 3.4 cups a day, although the National Coffee Association is studiously vague about what constitutes a cup--deliberately, perhaps, in an era in which a large Starbucks sloshes in at a whopping 20 oz. On top of our coffee, we poured down 2.4 billion gal. of tea in 2003, not all of which was gentle herbals. Biggest of all are carbonated soft drinks, 70% of which...