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...bees at a picnic. "If you're shooting to be No. 1 in the world, it's a lonely thing," says veteran golfer Kirk Triplett. "There's not a lot of friendliness when you're trying to beat a guy's brains in." Others are even more direct. "They rub each other the wrong way, sure," says one player. "A lot of it is arrogance. Some of it is condescension. I guarantee you they want to beat the other guy just because he is the other...
...seen a body like hers: fully developed breasts that stood straight out over a tiny waist, and narrow hips with long, chiseled legs. I felt certain right then that she would end up running the world and that if I hung around long enough, some of her power would rub off on me. Already I had learned to equate the perfection of a woman's body with power and success...
...here's the rub: many other antiaging creams use exactly the same types of compounds that target collagen production. Says Avon's research chief Janice Teal: "We've been using peptides in our products for years." Louis Rinaldi, head of Klein-Becker's new product acquisitions, counters that StriVectin's particular concentration of those compounds and the inclusion of a certain botanical extract make it more effective...
...York's Taconic Parkway, I never had to shift above fourth gear to feel like a human cannonball and pull all the Le Mans moves I could safely muster. With four-wheel drive and Pirelli 18-in. tires, the car never felt unstable. But here's the rub: it takes every ounce of restraint not to break the speed limit in this bull, yet the sound of the engine behind you is so overwhelming you may not notice the state trooper until he's on your tail. Your only hope: that he's content to hover and snap pictures with...
...Internet's public spaces. It's a process similar to the one that created the suburbs and replaced the great cities with shopping malls and urban sprawl. The magic of the Net is that it thrusts people together in a strange new world, one in which they get to rub virtual shoulders with characters they might otherwise never meet. The challenge for the citizens of cyberspace -- as the battles to control the Internet are joined and waged -- will be to carve out safe, pleasant places to work, play and raise their kids without losing touch with the freewheeling, untamable soul...