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...ever to compete at Olympia. When later approached, as she sat on the lawn watching the men compete, if she had realized the historical significance of her moment, she grinned, "Dude, I had no idea until it was pointed out to me afterwards. I'm so pissed - (hand on mouth) I guess I shouldn't say that, right? - I didn't do better, but, still man, it's just so awesome to be here...
...drunk and endure a hangover for the sake of science. Half the tipplers were given an extract of the prickly pear cactus plant before their binges; the other half were given a placebo. The following morning, people who took the cactus extract suffered significantly less from nausea, dry mouth and loss of appetite than those who got placebos. The latter group also had 40% higher blood levels of C-reactive protein, a marker for inflammation, which may contribute to hangovers. Unfortunately, the remedy had no effect on other symptoms such as dizziness and headache...
After graduating in '92, Gilles landed at Chrysler, where he rose fast. At 31 he was appointed one of just seven studio chiefs. What got him noticed? "Probably my mouth," he says. "I've been pretty outspoken from Day One." While designing the interior of the Jeep Liberty, his first production vehicle, he got in a fight over chrome ornamentation, which other executives were convinced was too pricey. He recalls a meeting that wasn't going his way. "I got really emotional," he says. "For the first time in my life I made an impassioned plea to the marketing guys...
...getting so many comments about it--and everybody was talking about it--that I decided to keep it. I had some fun with a Russian coach who asked me if my mustache slowed me down. I said, No, as a matter of fact, it deflects water away from my mouth, allows my rear end to rise and make me bullet shaped in the water, and that's what had allowed me to swim so great. He's translating as fast as he can for the other coaches, and the following year every Russian male swimmer had a mustache...
...German language." While the spelling revolt played out on the front pages of the nation's newspapers last week, the German Language Council was organizing a contest to find the most beautiful German word. More than 20,000 entries flooded in, including such tongue twisters as Erdbeermund (strawberry mouth), meaning voluptuous lips, and Wolkenkuckucksheim (cloud-cuckoo-land). Another entry read: Liebe (love). But when it comes to grammar and spelling, perhaps the loveliest word of all is einfach: simple...