Word: overnighting
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...feels the connection between wheels and independence more strongly than teenagers, which is probably why Pimp My Ride became an overnight hit for MTV. With rapper Xzibit as host, it's a kind of hip-hop Queen for a Day. It takes young drivers' beat-up jalopies and turns them into rap-video dreams, rolling Xanadus with DVD players, video-game machines and the mandatory spinning-wheel rims. The show owes everything to the materialistic side of hip-hop culture, but Xzibit says that Pimp's fantasies are at least more accessible than the million-dollar house tours...
...Guinness lent its name to a TV series hosted by David Frost, which was later broadcast on India's state-owned television network. I was living in India at the time and saw how the show changed people's lives. Overnight, Guinness mania swept the country as ordinary Indians, determined to achieve immortality, grew record-busting mustaches, walked vast distances with milk bottles on their heads, ate light bulbs and wrote poems on rice grains. Among those persistent enough to make it into the book was Shridhar Chillal, who still holds the record for the longest fingernails, at a combined...
...occupation by killing or capturing any foreigner, military or civilian, they came across. Together with the fighting in Fallujah, the Shi'ite uprising produced the bloodiest eruption of violence since the war began. In the past week, 46 U.S. soldiers and more than 460 Iraqis were killed. Seemingly overnight, an uprising by the country's previously peaceful majority--a specter that has haunted U.S. planners and could doom chances for democracy in Iraq--went from remotely plausible to dangerously imminent...
...Exercising regularly is always a sound investment. According to a study of 7,000 men that was coauthored by Dr. Tedd Mitchell of the Cooper Clinic in Dallas, fit individuals spend half as many nights in the hospital as unfit individuals do. And with the cost of an overnight stay now in excess of $1,100 (according to the Healthcare Financing Administration), those visits add up. --With reporting by Carolyn Bigda
...down to make lobster pots. Improved rice yields promised to ease the pressure to expand paddies at the expense of forest, but richer rice farmers use their profits to buy zebu cattle, the local measure of wealth, which contribute to overgrazing. "Madagascar's problems clearly won't be solved overnight," says Kew's Britt. "But we think things are slowly turning around." The RBG, he points out, is only one of dozens of organizations now working to ensure Madagascar stays a naturalist's promised land rather than becoming a paradise lost. "The help is there," adds Madagascar Center for Biodiversity...