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...crave is a hot meal, you can abandon the stove altogether. Hot Pack Self-Heating Meals are used by emergency personnel and hard-core campers. After the sealed meal is placed in a pouch, water (of any temperature) is added, and in 12 minutes, through the magic of magnesium and oxygen, the food is piping hot. The meals, in such flavors as Chicken and Vegetable Casserole and Rotini Bolognese, come with a napkin. --By Desa Philadelphia
...then, but you're not really a smoker, right? Wrong. When it comes to cardiovascular disease and lighting up, a little may be just as bad as a lot. Researchers looking at the lining of blood vessels were surprised to find the same damage whether the subjects smoked a pack a week or a pack a day. Meanwhile, the most comprehensive review to date of the effects of smoking firmly links it to a broad range of malignancies, including cancers of the stomach, liver, cervix and kidney...
...ante, suggesting that Israel had no reason to hand over occupied territory to the Palestinians and that instead "the Palestinians should build their national home within a neighboring Arab country." Problem is that there are 3.5 million Palestinians who don't share Armey's view that they should just pack up and leave their homes because of some conservative Republican's ideological fancy. Indeed, someone may want to gently remind the House GOP leader that ethnic cleansing is just the sort of thing that got Slobodan Milosevic into all that trouble...
...character in Minority Report, is irresistible. In Spielberg's sci-fi mystery, Cruise stars as a seemingly stalwart cop in 2054 who heads an elite squad known as Precrime. Using a trio of psychic mutants called precogs, he can detect a murder before it happens, strap on a jet pack, then arrest the would-be perpetrator. But Anderton leads a double life, scoring a drug called neuroin in dark alleys, seeking oblivion after the unraveling of his family. Based on a 1956 short story by Philip K. Dick, the movie takes off when Anderton is accused of a future murder...
Looking for a travel bargain this summer? Like the heat? Follow the trail of the Rat Pack to Palm Springs, Calif. Its posh spas, golf courses, restaurants and casinos are much roomier in the off-season. And starting in June, rates at resorts like the plush Miramonte fall from as much as $350 a night in peak season to just $89 a night. There is a catch: average temperatures hover at 105[degrees] and can go as high as 122[degrees] midday. But locals swear the golf courses are still playable in the morning. Families can spend the heat...