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Remember when the gold watch was a metaphor for retirement from a corporate culture that cared for its workers during those years between wedding and Winnebago? A company took you in after college and for 40 years gave you Christmas bonuses and ignored your martini breath after lunch. In exchange, at 65 you left with a Rolex or a gold-plated Timex, depending on pay scale...
...These findings are disturbing in light of the recent cigar craze, which has seen sales pass 5 billion per annum in the U.S. in recent years. Cigars first came back into vogue as a luxury - that swinging image of sucking on a Havana at a ritzy martini bar. Also alarming, say the researchers, is the increasing use of smaller cigars, sometimes known as cigarillos. The lower pH levels in these cigars, say the report's authors, make users more likely to inhale them, thus increasing the chance of lung cancer...
...lunchtime I discover one of the particular perks of working at Broadview. Most days, analysts prefer to grab fast food lunches or order in to their desks--the world of the two-martini lunch is long gone. But twice a week, the company caters a meal for all its employees. And it's a good one: salmon filets, roasted asparagus, rice and potatoes, with cheesecake for dessert. The staff gathers around black tables in the conference room, and for half an hour the office feels like a dining hall. Cliques form in different corners--secretaries over here, a small group...
...doctors keep going on talk shows, people with eating problems aren't going to resist a diet that lets you eat pork rinds. Sam Panayotovich, 53, the Illinois state liquor commissioner, has been following a combination of Atkins and a 1979 local diet known as the whipped-cream-and-martini diet. The diet allows fondue, bourguignon, bearnaise, fried chicken, chunks of steak and enough alcohol for a buzz. He's lost 53 lbs. and kept it off for 11 months, a personal record. Like most Atkins adherents, the liquor commissioner talks about his diet with a mystical admiration. "When...
...Lulu, a self-proclaimed "personality" from the free-bimonthly rag Stuff at Night, emceed the evening. Sporting a form-fitting black dress with glittering green styrofoam martini olives in her hair, she announced in her introduction, "My name is Lulu, not olive head...