Word: pockets
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Giselle Lopez, 17, of New York City, racked up $2,000 in debt on her first credit card. Her parents refused to pay, so Giselle got a job to pay it off slowly herself. "Now, every time I use it, I know that it comes from my own pocket," Giselle says. "That gives me a sense of responsibility for my actions...
...studies of herbs and so-called alternative remedies (see accompanying story). Among the eye-opening findings: Americans today make more visits to nontraditional physicians, including naturopaths who claim expertise in herbs and other natural therapies, than to their family doctors. And they spend almost as much out of pocket (not reimbursed by health insurance) on alternative medicine ($27 billion) as on all unreimbursed physician services ($29 billion). Small wonder that analysts from top brokerage houses were earnestly looking forward to meeting and greeting leaders of major nutritional-products companies at a gathering in New York City this week...
Could you think of a dottier notion for an exhibition than the one now in the lower rooms of the Frick Collection in New York City: "Victorian Fairy Painting"? All those little homunculi and chaste, pocket-size cuties with gauzy wings, flittering about the mossy dells and twiggy bowers of the sentimental English imagination--aargh, spare us. We are so much smarter now, anyway: instead of fairies we believe in close encounters of the third kind, with aliens sticking shiny probes into overweight housewives whisked from the parking lot of the 7-Eleven. And yet, even granting that the show...
What attracts me most, however, about Updike'sprose are his unexpected, marvelously aptcomparison. Under his rhapsodic word processor,pocket handkerchiefs become "paisley orchids,"bathrobed women cheese-filled blinis, faces andbodies, foods of all sorts.Photo Courtesy of Knopf...
...federal water surges toward their fields, the farmers generate hydroelectric power with it, which they then sell at market rates and pocket the profit. In Washington State, farmers in the Columbia Basin have built seven such plants, which now generate about 500 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, enough to supply power to 50,000 American homes for a year. The electricity is sold to the cities of Seattle and Tacoma and so far has produced nearly $10 million in income since the first plant went on line...