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Another school of thought, popular among clinical ecologists, is that we crave foods we are allergic to. I don't buy it. True food allergies--like anaphylactic reactions to peanuts or shellfish--are rare. Many more people may be intolerant of certain foods, but the reactions they have are idiosyncratic and not caused by the immune system...
...Miami Vice without the pastel suits and palm trees, a no-go zone where AK-47s are the weapons of choice and violent crime runs rife. Gittoes' energetic camera records a life for the Lovett family no less harrowing than the abuses at Abu Ghraib. "It's very rare that people come to see us," says brother Marcus, "unless it's something tragic...
...will place Airness products in another asset he owns - Harrods, the London department store. Such coups have enabled Koné to build Airness into France's largest-selling domestic sportswear brand. Relying on his intelligence, busi-ness flair and never-say-die attitude, Koné is an all-too-rare success story: a young black man from the kind of blighted, unemployment-racked French suburban housing projects that erupted in riots last year. In addition to being one of the brightest lights to have come from the banlieues, Koné is trying to change the system. Without the massive capital...
...moment, as well as a good time to put in a call to child services. Black, 37, can be irresponsible and gross and all those other things associated with burly comics since John Belushi first belched his way into moviegoers' hearts. But for Black, chilaquiles moments are actually pretty rare. "We lived together during The School of Rock," says Mike White, who wrote Rock and co-wrote Nacho Libre, "and I can say Jack's surprisingly unlike his screen alter egos. He's really smart and effortlessly funny, but he's not a garrulous slob. There...
...While in college, Armstrong had what was then a rare opportunity to work at the General Electric (GE) laboratory near his home in Schenectady, N.Y. He describes his position as an internship—before internships were part of educational or corporate culture...