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...pictures of the homes these guys are building..." It's a short road from disgust to despair: What do I do with my money now? Business schools are adding courses on Enron to their fall lineup; a new book, How Companies Lie, promises to help investors see through the smoke and break the mirrors of corporate accounting. People say they have stopped investing and play poker instead; it's a safer bet. The Wall Street Journal profiles the barber who has given up on cnbc and now takes longer walks with his wife because he knows he has to stay...
...sorry...those are five reasons to smoke cigarettes. Meat is more complicated. It's a food most Americans eat virtually every day: at the dinner table; in the cafeteria; on the barbecue patio; with mustard at a ballpark; or, a billion times a year, with special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed bun. Beef is, the TV commercials say, "America's food"--the Stars and Stripes served up medium rare--and as entwined with the nation's notion of its robust frontier heritage as, well, the Marlboro...
...like the hero from a John le Carr? thriller, soon to be swapped for a rival spy. At the midway point my keeper motioned me quickly off to the side. The daily train to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, approached from Ji'an, its coal-fueled engine blowing black smoke and steam into the clear, summer sky. The imposing engine lurched by within feet of us, the wooden bridge shuddering under its weight. The train's handful of North Korean passengers peered down at me quizzically. A few even scrambled to the train's third, and last, car, anxious...
...impulses between cells, throwing out the balance of the brain either by causing too many chemicals to be released or by stopping the cells' chemical transmitters reaching the vital receptors. The reason marijuana is so potent is that it has its own receptor in the brain. The more you smoke, the less sensitive the receptor becomes. TIME: How is a person's behavior affected? Greenfield : Research shows that the drug leads to impaired memory and coordination. These effects may be long-term and irreversible. There is strong evidence that marijuana can trigger schizophrenia. Then there's demotivational syndrome, an inability...
...pictures of the homes these guys are building ..." It's a short road from disgust to despair: What do I do with my money now? Business schools are adding courses on Enron to their fall lineup; a new book, How Companies Lie, promises to help investors see through the smoke and break the mirrors of corporate accounting. People say they have stopped investing and play poker instead; it's a safer bet. The Wall Street Journal profiles the barber who has given up on CNBC and now takes longer walks with his wife because he knows he has to stay...