Word: puff
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...COCOA PUFF Hard to believe, but cocoa--well, a defatted extract of it--may be good for the heart. In a study, rabbits were fed a cholesterol-rich diet along with 200 mg of the extract daily. After two months, the bunnies' blood vessels did a better job contracting and relaxing than the vessels of rabbits fed the same diet but deprived of the extract. Cocoa contains powerful antioxidants called flavonoids that sweep up damaging molecules in cells. The rabbit news isn't license to drown in hot chocolate. But food companies are working on cocoa-extract supplements...
...promoted entirely online--in part through Microsoft's MSN website--and the 10-minute episode, with hard-hitting information about the characters' period hairstyles, is strictly fan-club stuff. There's the all-empowering Web for you: why rely on Entertainment Tonight when you can do your own puff pieces...
...joke, Fidel Castro will be known as a failed dictator who ruled in the age of Los Van Van. But until recently, the legendary salsa troupe, whose virile and eclectic rhythms have influenced Latin music for three decades, was not much more familiar to most Americans than the rich puff of a Cohiba cigar...
Every cloud has a silver lining, even a puff of exhaust. For some folks, there's a brighter side to the higher price of gasoline...
Which raises a crucial question: If we all become drive-time Puff Daddys, sampling and re-creating music according to our personal taste, are we the composer or the listener? If you create something that contains fragments of other songs but sounds nothing like any of those songs, have you in fact written a new song? This is a question that will keep music lawyers busy for a long time. Yet it's a development that will make the French deconstructionists happy. They've been saying for years that the act of reading completes the written work...