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...This may be a little-known fact, but during slavery in the US, slave masters and overseers would rub the heads of their male slaves for "good luck." I am not a slave, and no one here is my master...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: It's Not Your Afro | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...enrolls in Leverett's massage class? Couples make up only a small percentage of the Leverett clientele. The class primarily serves people who interested in getting relaxed and learning how to give a good back rub. Often and men or women who are friends enroll together. Rarely, though, do guys who are friends enroll together...

Author: By Lynda A. Yast, | Title: Knead to Relax? | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

...tuned to CNBC, because the trading never stops. Americans are working 160 hours more each year than they did 20 years ago, moonlighting is on the rise and nearly half the respondents in one survey said they have less time for lunch. They stop at the back-rub store for five minutes to get some quick relief. They stop at the supermarket to pick up a precooked "home-meal replacement." Anxiety disorders affect more people than depression or substance abuse. "People were saying, 'As soon as things get good, I'm going to take some time off,'" says pollster Celinda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PARADOX OF PROSPERITY | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...verge of pulling out of the spin? He had been talking about doing the Fatty Arbuckle story, from a script that David Mamet wrote just for him. A movie movie. In which he would neither crush furniture with his cascading body nor walk into a glass door and then rub his head until his hair stuck out all over. He would not be playing a fat white ninja. He called the Arbuckle idea "a departure from what I've previously done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chris Farley: Too Much of Everything | 12/18/1997 | See Source »

...process of extracting hydrogen from more conventional fuels such as gasoline and methanol inevitably releases some carbon dioxide--but not as much as the internal combustion engine does, and therein lies the rub...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fuel Cells: Unleashing the Power of Hydrogen | 12/9/1997 | See Source »

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