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...about Einstein, musing about the (yawn) magic of the road and relating the minutiae of his girlfriend trouble, all seemingly to stretch his tale to book length. Driving Mr. Albert's best recurring joke is that Harvey changes the subject whenever the author asks to pop off the Tupperware lid so that he can see the floating brainy bits for himself. If only Paterniti had been as persistent about getting inside the head of his living passenger...
When the world was dominated by two bitterly antagonistic superpowers, arms control made sense. Barely. The world was made marginally safer by the U.S. and the Soviet Union having a fairly good idea of, and a fairly good lid on, the nuclear weapons in each other's hands...
...South African inquiry has lifted the lid on a multimillion-dollar betting racket that has offered large amounts of cash to players who'll ensure that a favored team will lose a game, or simply that those players will perform below par. Cronje, who claims to have been led into the scheme by "Satan," is unlikely ever again to don his country's cap, and he may well have helped end the careers of some of his most promising players. The financial scandal may in fact be a reflection of changes in the game over the past three decades during...
...Diaper Genie is a popular invention that seals a used diaper in plastic wrap. While it reduces odor, it also puts another layer of plastic between your diaper and the landfill. Here's a better idea: a diaper pail with a tight-fitting, foot pedal-operated lid can be bought at a hardware store and doesn't require $5 Genie refills...
...room for maneuver has been drastically reduced, and the U.S. and NATO have managed with minimal casualties to defuse the potential for tragedy in Kosovo - but by doing so, of course, they've inherited a bunch of other problems." And if NATO had to take its hand off the lid, the Balkans could quickly once again turn messy...