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FATAL ATTRACTI0N Are you one of the 2 million Americans with a pacemaker or implantable defibrillator in your chest? Then be wary of therapeutic magnets used to relieve arthritis and muscle aches. A report shows that those popular mattress pads containing magnets can interfere with--and sometimes deactivate--implantable heart-rhythm regulators. You're probably safe with smaller magnetic gear worn on the wrist or foot, as long as it's kept at least 6 in. from your shoulder. That's where the circuitry for the heart devices is housed...
...album's first disc features the Fatboy Slim mix. True to the big beat sound, the disc kicks off with Walter Wanderley's organ tune "Summer Samba." Laid over that kitschy melody is the weirdest breakbeat you'll ever hear, something like a mixture of a saw and a mattress spring. Fatboy Slim's mix features remixes of songs by famous artists like the Chemical Brothers ("The Private Psychedelic Reel"), Underworld ("Born Slippy") and Art of Noise ("Metaforce"), but to buy the album just for these would be a terrible mistake. To appreciate the mix, you really need to hear...
...should take the money they might spend on items like baby swings (there have been six deaths and nine serious injuries from the popular Graco model) or walkers (more babies are injured in walkers than in any other nursery product), and invest in a crib with a snug-fitting mattress that meets safety guidelines (check cpsc.gov) Otherwise fine cribs are displayed in stores (and in the current Pottery Barn for Kids catalog) filled with quilts and pillows that can suffocate infants younger than age 1. Parents who receive such bedding sets should dress their infant in a warm sleeper...
...believe they'll come back by the end of the year." At 61, he sees no reason to rethink retirement plans. "I've been through this before, and I believe that the place to be is in the stock market," he says. "You can't put it underneath your mattress." Of course not. But last week that Simmons Beautyrest fund seemed worth considering...
Listening to his music, I heard the tunes that I would record if I knew how to play guitar. "The sun goes into her room/and catches the dust in flight/and gently warms the mattress/ that Katie's resting on./Carefully she puts down her viola/next to the kitten on her lap/and when she wants to say its name/she remembers it has none./Uh-huh." I cried a cry that only one Joel Stein can cry for the unnamed cat of another Joel Stein...