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...Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder one-horned rhinos wallowing in the mud, sloth bears eyeing you suspiciously from overhead branches, and the newest feature, flying squirrels the size of cats, gliding among the treetops. Visitors can walk along paths that cut through the park's 16 lush hectares or take a 45-minute tram ride with a guide who will tell you about...
...paper. Who says the days of dotcom wealth are dead? Much Ado About Doing Nothing So what if the 35-hour week is holding back economic growth. Less is more, according to Corinne Maier, who praises France's laid-back work ethic in her satirical book, Bonjour Paresse (Hello Sloth: The Art and Necessity of Doing as Little as Possible at Work). Published in May in a modest initial run of 4,000 copies, Maier's essay ridicules the rigidity and bureaucracy of French management culture by urging readers to exploit it, with helpful chapters like "The Idiots You Work...
...American Philosophical Society. It was to this group that Jefferson, a self-trained paleontologist, presented one of his prize possessions: the fossilized bones of a prehistoric creature he called Megalonyx. Jefferson thought it was a huge, lion-like carnivore, but it turned out to be, alas, a giant ground sloth...
While most people blame themselves for their sloth, obesity experts say the environment plays a role here too. Research shows that people who live in communities where it's easy to walk to stores have lower rates of obesity than folks who must drive everywhere--but 70% of Americans live in what Sallis calls "non-walkable environments" (see "The Walking Cure," page 92). "If we want to stop obesity, we have to stop building the infrastructure for obesity," he says. "We need to re-engineer opportunities for activity back into our environment...
...slight deepening of their frowns. I flicked through the channels, but each of the morning shows featured the same peculiar pastiche of weather reports, human-interest stories and war. Every time the migration of little cartoon suns across the weather map lulled me into a comfortable state of sloth, the camera cut to a clip of bombs exploding over nighttime Iraq...