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...some sodium-packed Thai food, I know that eating home-cooked meals all the time is not terribly practical. But with a little planning and some self-awareness, you can work around those occasional slips. Salt is, after all, essential to life. The trick is to adopt an overall pattern of healthy living and not depend on any one thing to make up for bad habits...
...certainly looks set to be the pattern at least until he's been medically examined. The chances are that when that happens, doctors will find that he's medically and psychologically unfit to stand trial. And that'll be it for this case. But then there'll be appeals, and more cases brought against him. It's going to go on and on. But it's not going to seem as crucial as it does now. Pinochet's legal team will hope to convince the doctors only once that he's unfit for trial, and use that finding to fight...
...Gore this is the time in life, the right tragedy, the right male-pattern baldness to occasion a full-fledged midlife crisis. With his first dream dashed, he could reach for a second act more suited to his brainy, scientific gifts. More likely the second act he hopes for is a second chance. But even though he won the popular vote and, for all we'll ever know, the electoral one, his own party is complaining that had he won bigger, he wouldn't have needed to be worried over a few thousand uncounted ballots. Democrats don't like their...
...prompt you once more to consider decamping to what W. called "our most important neighbor to the north." What I want to argue seriously here is that we have evidence that W. Bush learns, he learns fast, and then he is Not Bad. He has a consistent pattern of searching out father figures as mentors in each field he's tried, and he's always selected good ones. In Texas he chose (or was chosen by; let's keep that open) lieutenant governor Bob Bullock, one of the shrewdest s.o.b.s who ever walked. Let's just say that if Bush...
...grandparenthood: there's no such thing as too many pictures. Now, for $30, you can render your precious angels or their brilliant artwork in Lego blocks. Submit a digital photo to lego.com/mosaic and Lego will send a brick-by-brick grid, similar to a needlepoint pattern, along with all the black, white and gray pieces you need to build it. A color version is due out next year...