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Comedy Central tried to convert Stein’s popularity into further ratings success by developing a talk show, 1999’s “Turn Ben Stein On.” But the show—a half-hour interview format with a theme song written and performed by the host himself—was short-lived, and with the end of “Money” in 2002, Stein must now make due without a cable television program bearing his name...
...baseball diamond, Harvard students’ ability to bend the Organization Kid stereotype often presented itself in everyday college life. There was the spacey mid-Westerner roommate, with hours of video game playing under his belt and a summa cum laude thesis under a pile of clothes. There was the group of friends that said “work be damned” and lingered for an hour in the dining hall “marinating” post-meal. There was the universe-probing late-night conversation held over a double-decker or a courtyard-imbibed bottle...
...enjoy it,” she says of her job, which she says “is essentially editing” the videotape of the show and fitting it into the one-hour time slot...
...have to make it a priority," says Chris Stock, 51, a 6ft. 2-in. clinical pharmacist in Salt Lake City, Utah, who lost 70 lbs. seven years ago after suffering a heart attack and adopting a vegetarian diet and a daily exercise routine. Stock runs at least an hour each day, keeps himself busy and leaves encouraging notes for himself around the house, on the refrigerator and on the computer as a way to deal with frequent thoughts about food. "Every diet is designed to be short term," he says. "But this has got to be a commitment...
...Mexicans have traveled across the border to work the California vineyards. Those economics haven't changed in what is now the $33 billion U.S. wine capital. During harvest, Napa County is home to up to 2,700 migrant workers, most from Mexico. For as much as $15 an hour, the workers endure 18-hour days of backbreaking labor, often with no benefits or job security. "Without the Mexican labor force, there wouldn't be a wine industry," says Amelia Ceja, 48. Her children were to the vineyard born, all right--to migrant workers. Their grandparents toiled in the fields...