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Back to the future for United Airlines. -- Congress takes on corporate America. -- Crops rot as migrant workers...
...three packs a day. In January 1986, he began his new regimen by quitting the booze. For the first three months, he and his personal trainer weighed and recorded every bite and sip he took. "I was scared to eat chocolate cake and thick steak, afraid my blood would rot," Remar remembers. He also went overboard on his exercise program. In addition to weight lifting, biking and jogging, there was a backyard aerobics class that friends were inveigled into joining. He was so intense that he promptly injured his right shoulder...
Everyone's on the dole; the less people work, the more time they'll spend vegging out and shooting up, and the less they'll notice that the government is letting the country rot...
...watches and shouldered half the load. She had performed wizardry in the galley with 200 eggs -- souffles, quiche, omelettes, desserts. She knew they would run out of meat and would have to turn to eggs somewhere on the crossing, and the trick was to keep the eggs from rotting. First, she learned, turn the eggs once a week (it takes one week for the yolk to drop to the bottom, touching the shell and commencing to rot). Second, coat them with vaseline (to clog the porous shell and keep moisture and oxygen away from the yolk). For good measure, they...
...Wait, don't leave me here to rot...