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...unapologetic case for the car and an unofficial indictment of the forces allied against it: the auto and gasoline industries, an Administration stocked with former executives of oil companies and, not least, the American consumer, who would rather strut in a gas-gorging Hummer than put-put in a modest little...
Philbin is being--as much as a man can be who regularly refers to himself in the third person--modest. By one objective measure, he is TV's most successful host ever: he holds the Guinness record for most hours on camera (15,188, and counting). When the aliens who have monitored our broadcast signals invade, they will demand to negotiate the terms of our surrender with Regis. Now the producers of American Idol are hoping he will do for their new Ed Sullivanesque variety competition (one auditioner balances a 300-lb. oven on his face) what...
...system was designed to automate the process and improve on it, using two massive fans to pull air toward the cold point. The intrusive approach scandalized those who had worked so hard to figure out a more modest solution to earlier problems in the cave. "Our idea was always to be as parsimonious as possible," says Pierre Vidal, a retired researcher who worked in Lascaux for decades. "This thing seemed more like a central air-conditioning system...
...America's shrinking center, a melancholy flatlands existentialist who has masked his often dark materials under a slow-spoken amiability. His Lake Wobegon stories are nearly always about the failure of ideas and ambitions that the plain and simple folks of his fictional home town are too shy, too modest, to openly admit, let alone effectively act upon...
...tendency for even modest weight gains to trigger diabetes is most likely the genetic legacy from ancestors who had to cope with cruel cycles of feast and famine. Under such conditions, survival favored those genetically blessed with a highly efficient ability to squirrel away calories during times of plenty by breaking food down into glucose, then storing it as fat. Now surrounded by a constant source of food and living a less active lifestyle, people born with that genetic pedigree are perfectly primed for diabetes. "It's not simply that Western food is causing diabetes but that different body types...