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...raft of new gadgets on the market that use high-tech sensors to help me get a handle on my love handles. During the past month, I've focused on two gizmos that promise to pound the Quittner bod back into its more kittenish shape. One, the cigarette-lighter-size (and awkwardly named) Smheart Link, works with an iPhone to monitor my heartbeat during customized daily workouts. The other, the Bodybugg, measures my caloric expenditure. I recommend each. (Watch Josh Quittner get fit with his web and tech gadgets...
...Riverbed” that clashes with the vocals and squeezed-in synthesized organ. “All You Need is Me” ultimately manages to harmonize Morrissey’s fussy vocals with the backing guitars, but only after the initially heavy instrumentation is abandoned for lighter fare. Morrissey’s voice, thankfully, never duels with the powerful, profound chords, and he’s free to embellish his autobiographical quips—“I was a small fat child in a welfare house / There was only one thing I dreamed about / Fate has just handed...
...handled them before 9/11. "That's an important move, because trials and convictions are supposed to render justice to victims, their families, and society - and revenge-seeking kangaroo courts don't do that," a French counter-terrorism official notes. "Does that risk [the possibility of an] innocent verdict or lighter sentences? Yes. But that's how the system works. Fix or improve it if you don't like it, but don't stick another rigged system...
...lipstick on a pig - nestle in lipstick red chairs and slurp on their "Poma," a refreshing, burgundy-tinted pomegranate martini with a swift kick of lime. First floor is more for the older folks whose rusty joints find it difficult to handle four flights of stairs. Those with a lighter gait should speed it to the cozy top floor for a stunning city view. There are a few private parties at Tabaq this weekend, but it's still open to the public as the spot to hit for Mediterranean cuisine and intimate...
...both waited in class, long before the professor would arrive, she invited me into the hallway for a smoke. Patricia’s severe face was framed by long dreadlocks, and her baggy outfit announced that she probably had more important concerns than clothes. Fumbling around for a lighter, we exchanged the usual first-time banter. “I’m from the States, live in Massachusetts but grew up in California, took a few Spanish classes, am an Obama fan, and study Social Studies (Inevitably, ‘¿Qu?...