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...certain backlash from the public - if they start staging strikes, the public could say, 'Hey, these unions are keeping us from our vacations.'" If all else fails, fed-up airline customers should hope for an election-year meltdown on the tarmac: Even the most incensed public interest group would pale, of course, in comparison to any one senator kept from even one minute of his flesh-pressing rounds by a galling airline delay...
...Health officials have myriad theories, but few real answers. Some blame the leviathan that is America's tobacco industry, whose advertising and marketing resources make any public health efforts pale in comparison. Others blame women's biological susceptibility to nicotine's addictive qualities, which may make it more difficult for a woman to quit smoking than a man. Still others point to a culture obsessed with thinness, even at the expense of health; women who try to quit smoking often gain weight as a result of both increased eating and a diminished metabolism...
...pale man with graying hair and an easygoing smile, Suzuki has spent his entire adult life at his firm, working from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. daily. He joined the company out of high school, in 1974, drawn to the firm because it managed his father's portfolio. "This is more serious, much worse than when the bubble burst," Suzuki says, referring to 1990, when the bottom fell out of Japan's stock market. "We cannot see any future...
...example, if "tongue" is pronounced tung, why isn't "argue" pronounced arg? And if "enough" is enuff, why isn't "bough" pronounced buff? The arbitrary rules that govern English bedevil nonnative students of the language as much as they torment would-be spelling-bee champs. But such frustrations pale before those endured by dyslexics, who live with a learning disability that can make reading and writing all but impossible...
...days of Elvis, were forbidden to show Jennifer Lopez below the collarbone. Stephen Soderbergh, Best Director (for "Traffic") gave a feeling and self-effacing speech about creativity ("the world would be intolerable without art"). Bob Dylan materialized from Australia, geezer indeed, with a fascinatingly cunning, wolfish look in his pale gray eye, like Vincent Price when he's up to something...