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...added that because students should not choose their clubs based on the lavishness of events, this change will help move clubs closer to their ideal...
...unruffled commune, the symbiosis of modern man and primal nature. And if these attractions don't give you a high, then the free dope will--it sprouts like kudzu all over the place. Now Richard, the narrator of the book and film The Beach, has somehow reached this ideal island in Thailand, this littoral dream made literal. But Utopia isn't good enough for Richard, because he's questing, he's weak, he's ornery...he's Leonardo DiCaprio...
Which raises the question, How will we tell one another apart if everyone looks like Claudia Schiffer? Well, maybe we won't want to, says Dr. Alan Matarasso, a New York City plastic surgeon. With globalization, he predicts, the new beauty ideal will evolve from blond, blue-eyed Nordic to a darker skin look that's a more heterogeneous blend. When more of the population can fit under the beauty tent, we won't feel so compelled to change our looks. That will be the most potent beauty pill...
...better or worse, the suburbs are what America came up with when presented with the chance to manufacture its ideal geography. Come 2025, people will still live in houses within eyeball distance of their neighbors, but the cyberrevolution and the environmental movement promise to alter the landscape. While computers promote a dramatic trend toward decentralization, allowing people to spread out and live or work anywhere, the green consciousness will urge a contrasting densification, to conserve open space. The reconciliation of these opposing trends will define the suburb of the future. As the vastness of cyberspace increasingly satisfies the craving...
...mammals, trailing cats (55 million) and dogs (50 million). Adult ferrets weigh between 1 1/2 lbs. and 3 lbs., perfect for compact living spaces, and the species' record of good behavior--according to the Animal Health Institute, ferrets are 200 times less likely to bite than dogs--makes them ideal first pets. Then there's the ferret's hip intellectual profile. "They're not pack animals," says Shefferman, "and they don't learn by rote, like dogs. They think creatively. They actually need intellectual stimulation." Boeing once used ferrets in aircraft assembly to run wiring through tight spaces--a skill...