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...long as they hold the iron, lad, they’ll do,” Patrick Ryan laughed sympathetically...
...bored. So I quit, cold turkey, and vowed to lift nothing heavier than a pint of Ben & Jerry's and jog only as far as the corner Blockbuster. After two years of blissful lethargy, however, the guilt finally sank in. I refused to hit the treadmill or pump iron. Instead I found a way to get fit that is a lot more fun and could even grow into a hot new sport in the coming era of global warming: snowboarding and skiing--without the snow...
...Food Network and the rising perception of the chef as celebrity have made a huge difference," says Senn. Many of the chefs are male, and they have made cooking cool. Young viewers know what Emeril Lagasse cooked last week; they can tell you who won the last Iron Chef matchup. Even public television is whipping up a show: several stations are scheduled to pick up Kitchen Kids with Betty Ann, a nutrition and cooking series, when it debuts next fall...
...Koizumi's vision was to reorganize the way government is run, muscling up the executive branch and tearing apart the so-called iron triangle of vested interests?the LDP; their financial and vote-getting supporters in agriculture, construction and other industries; and the bureaucrats. Because the LDP has essentially run Japan as a one-party fiefdom since the mid-1950s, real power broking has gone on inside the party, among rival factions and behind closed doors. "The LDP does its real work in the dark," says Taro Kono, a young LDP Lower House member. Under Koizumi's plan, the factions...
...best epiphanies happen at breakfast—those thunderbolts that hit while you’re waiting zombie-like in front of the waffle iron. I’ve brainstormed English papers at breakfast; I’ve solved elusive crossword clues and figured out what to get my dad for Christmas. Naturally, it was at this fateful time of the morning that I answered the question that has plagued me for months: What the hell am I going to do after I graduate...