Word: habitability
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...women in the U.S.--has plummeted 30%. The decline is mostly attributable to better diet: women are eating less red meat and fewer high-fat dairy products while chowing down on more of the good stuff, like fiber. The fact that more of them have kicked the smoking habit helps too. That's not to say the battle is over. Doctors report that if obesity were licked, heart disease would drop even further...
...knife, star of Crocodile Dundee. Aussies (wrongly pronounced Awzies; the correct pronunciation is Ozzies, though we'd rather you Yanks dropped the dumb pseudo-intimacy altogether and just called us Australians) are all supposed to be as straight as Harrison Ford or John Wayne, despite our superficially confusing habit of addressing a friend or a stranger of the same sex as "mate...
Clinton also met with a drug sniffing dog, and in the process revealed a little-known presidential sleeping habit. The dog, whose name was "Darling," had recently sniffed out some heroin in the tennis shoes of a tourist on a cruise ship. Clinton petted the dog, who seemed quite taken with POTUS. In surmising why the pooch seemed so affectionate, Clinton dropped his little nugget: "Buddy slept with me last night. He probably smells Buddy." No details were available about the president's morning shower...
...populism that rouses an audience on the hustings. And perhaps the reason Gore so often seems to be impersonating a tub-thumping pol is that he feels the need to disguise his cerebral nature, since American politics has often punished eggheads. When I propose to Gore that his complex habit of mind may be an asset for a President but a liability for a candidate, he seems stumped for a response, as if he agrees but can't admit it. "Well," he says finally, "I hope you're right on the first part and wrong on the second...
...drinking much that night and did not in any case get drunk), perhaps is married and didn't want to use his real name, and borrowed mine for the evening as a sort of private gag, a dumb, spur-of-the-moment stunt. 2) He makes a habit of this (how else explain what he knows about me?) - he's a sick and mischievous character, a con artist with a personality disorder. Get out the bug spray...