Word: gals
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...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...
That’s all. It’s high time a new guard with energy and healthy immune systems took over. I’d like to thank Simon for Gossip Gal and the ed office, Danny for the article about football in Glasgow (by far the best article ever run anywhere), Lowell M-41, the extended Gadfly family, and of course, the wonderful souls that make FM happen. Cheers...
Hollings: The women [Senators] have made a material change. [In the late 1960s] we had one gal, Margaret Chase Smith. You'd never hear from her. Now you can't shut them up. We've got 14, and they're outstanding...
BILL MAHER got sued by ex--gal pal Nancy Johnson (a.k.a. centerfold Coco Johnsen). HE SAYS the suit is frivolous and false. SHE SAYS he backed out of plans to marry her and manhandled her at a party...