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...tree in the parking lot. We call it the Survivor Tree. Julie always liked to park her little red Grand Am on the east side of that tree, in the shade. Now it's the only living thing left in this place. When I go there, sometimes I lean against the trunk, close my eyes, listen to the leaves and think about the way it used to be. Then I go down to the fence, and strangers will sometimes ask me questions: "Where was the front door to the building?" or "Where was the truck parked?" Then I tell them...
...shortwave radio, calling on "any nation in the world" for assistance. "We have hostiles in the woods," he cried. "We are being invaded!" But no one came to his aid, and his supporters were beginning to trickle away. Even the ambassador's wife had decided to leave the combination lean-to and trailer that was designated the "embassy compound." Thus, shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday, with barely the pretense of extraterritoriality, Rick McLaren, self-declared "ambassador, consul-general and chief foreign legal officer" of the separatist Republic of Texas, ended his 6 1/2-day standoff against America, laid down...
That is a zealot's stretch. But the trend toward "strategic philanthropy"--giving in a way that benefits the corporate bottom line--is unmistakable. In the lean and mean 1990s, companies are taking a close look at where every penny they give away goes. More and more, they are focusing on areas that resonate with their customers. So Whirlpool, whose main customers are mothers, concentrates on funding things like child care and job training for women...
Last year, at about 1 p.m. on the 10th of May, Jon Krakauer, on assignment for Outside magazine, plodded toward the 29,028-ft. summit of Mount Everest. Sucking a lean mixture of bottled oxygen and air that only partly made up for the dire thinness of the atmosphere, he managed a single step to three or four heaving breaths. To his oxygen-starved brain, the world beyond his rubber mask, he writes, "was stupendously vivid but seemed not quite real, as if a movie were being projected in slow motion across the front of my goggles. I felt drugged...
Another slice of lox, please. A major study, which followed 2,000 subjects for 30 years, concludes that a mere seven ounces of fish a week can cut by 60% the risk of having a HEART ATTACK. That goes for both lean and fatty fish...