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...memories will be so thick they’ll have to brush them away from their faces," Jones’ character tells Ray, convincing him to keep his field (a speech so stirring that Annie’s brother blows a gasket...
HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW THE CANDIDATES LOWER THEIR voices, become more thoughtful and almost reasonable when fielding questions about social issues? It happened in the vice-presidential debate when gay marriage was raised, and it may well have saved President Bush from blowing a gasket in the second presidential debate. His last half hour, when stem-cell research and abortion were discussed, was his best. He stopped huffing about, slipped into Man of God mode. He even accused Kerry of being a flip-flopper in a more thoughtful...
...certainly need them. For as medical science adds years to our collective lives, we chip away at them by doing things--stewing at our desk jobs, eating fatty processed foods, blowing a gasket in a freeway traffic jam, exercising no more than our fingers at the computer--that centenarians can't imagine. Most of them were born into an America as remote from today's metaphorically as the craggy villages of Sardinia, Okinawa and Nova Scotia are geographically. In the early 1900s people walked miles to work not by choice but out of necessity; cars were still a luxury. People...
...Jackson, up over the incredible Teton pass (hammering the little chainsaw engine they put in this pipsqueak car as it tries in vain to find the right gear for going 70 mph up a 10 percent grade). I savagely step on the gas and dare it to blow a gasket, reveling in the guilt-free/worry-free magic of a rental car. I come over the hill into Idaho, not really knowing what to expect. To my left are the shining Rocky Mountains, sun glinting down through the clouds, a tremendous early spring day. To my right and up ahead...
...Starbucks' Barista Utopia Vacuum Coffee Brewing System ($169). The idea is to take vacuum coffee brewing, a method long favored in Europe, and Americanize it--make it plug-in simple, electric and automatic. You put freshly ground coffee in the large funnel on top, insert the funnel's rubber gasket tightly into the water-filled carafe below, push ON and stand back. The water quickly heats to a perfect, sub-boiling 205[degrees]F and gets sucked up into the vacuum created in the funnel, where it briefly mixes with the grounds before cascading back down into the carafe...