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...people's entertainment just to announce your thoughts. As soon as I got on it, I made a long speech about my goals as a one-day flight attendant and how we got a 2% commission for selling the Rande Gerber--designed cocktails. I told them that though I hadn't tried Delta's "Mile High Mojito," I was sure it was delicious, since Gerber must have used a fair amount of alcohol to land Cindy Crawford. Cindy Crawford jokes must not work at high altitude...
...hadn't. Capote didn't invent true crime, though he did revive and revitalize it. Since 1966, In Cold Blood has served as the template for thousands of true-crime books. But the weird thing is that with a few exceptions--such as Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song--they aren't very good. In Cold Blood is not just the first modern work of true crime; it is also the only true-crime masterpiece, period...
...over just about everything, hardly anyone would have expected Bob Dole to pick Jack Kemp as his running mate in 1996 - least of all Kemp. As little as three weeks before he was selected, recalls Dole's campaign manager, Scott Reed, Kemp was grumbling in GOP circles that he hadn't been given a speaking spot at the party's convention. So why did Dole pick him? "We were going for oxygen, heat and energy," Reed says. "We went through the traditional list, and we just weren't happy with what we were coming up with." Kemp later turned...
...could be wrought if a brand was linked to shoddy labor practices overseas. For example, in 1996, it was alleged that a Wal-Mart clothes label endorsed by American TV personality Kathie Lee Gifford had been produced using child labor in Honduran sweatshops. Gifford sobbed on air, saying she hadn't been aware of conditions at the factory. For corporations and consumers alike, it brought home the realization that globalized production comes at a price: the cheap labor that lured multinationals to developing countries often goes hand in hand with less appealing hallmarks of developing nations - harsh working conditions...
...television studio lights, and compared their effects to those of 300-lux bulbs, which are found in office and retail settings. "I was surprised by the results on cognition," says Van Someren. "I had expected, based on previous studies, that we would find improvements in sleep. But I hadn't expected to see the effect on cognition...