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Four months ago, the baggy-jeans-and-snowboard crowd was cavorting in deep powder at this California ski resort, called Northstar-at-Tahoe. Many of the same folks are back on these 8,000-ft. peaks, today--hiking up the rough slopes, now covered with rocks, weeds and pinecones--to play a round of "extreme golf...
Creatine--more accurately, creatine monohydrate--is one of the country's most popular nutritional supplements. Almost as easy to buy as a pack of gum, it's available as capsules, powder or liquid at health-food stores, drug stores and on the Internet. The packaging promises to maximize your strength, endurance and muscle size. Last year an estimated $400 million worth was sold. Most buyers are adults looking to get a better pump at the gym, but there are signs that users are getting younger...
...believe in brain damage though. Take Phineas Gage, for example. On the morning of Sept. 13, 1848, Gage, a construction foreman for the Rutland & Burlington Railroad, was preparing a powder charge for blasting rock when it accidentally exploded, sending a 3-ft. 7-in., 13-lb. iron tamping bar straight through his skull. Gage fully recovered and lived for 12 more years, but his personality changed. He became an extravagant, antisocial, foulmouthed, bad-mannered liar. And apparently he'd been a pretty nice guy before the accident...
...It’s in the (Small) Bag: mini-hair brush, room key with ID key chain, Cover Girl Lipslicks, lip gloss, powder compact, nail file, Always maxi...
That task looked doubly difficult after Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas, a Cuban American, made his vow not to help federal officials enforce any order to return Elian. Penelas then all but tossed a match into the city's powder keg by declaring he would hold Clinton and Reno "responsible for anything that may occur." But Penelas--a Democrat who dreams of a Cabinet post if Gore wins next fall--felt affirmed a day later when Gore backed congressional bills to give Elian, his father and other Cuban family members instant U.S. residency, and argued for moving the case...