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...aging, are generated. The body's stress response has a bigger effect on blood pressure, raising it higher than normal. People may notice they feel crummy a few hours after eating junk food. And the sudden surge and drop in insulin - the hormone that spurs your body to store energy - also leaves them feeling hungry again soon after eating, despite having had plenty of calories...
...there was the young man with a mental condition whose brother blasted him with a homemade shotgun because he wasn't taking his medicine. Crider's men heard the shot and came running. No one was really hurt and the young man is now working at a local grocery store. Then there was the time a local distinguished community leader complained to Crider's men that his son was addicted to pharmaceuticals and asked them to intervene. The Americans staged an intervention, scaring the young man straight with a fake urine test result...
...never really let up. How do you feel [here in New Zealand] when you go down to the grocery store and pass a $5 note with you picture on it? I don't spend a great deal of time thinking about that sort of thing...
...take someone and have half their time devoted to making vinyl a real business," says John Esposito, president and CEO of WEA Corp., the U.S. distribution company of Warner Music Group, which posted a 30% increase in LP sales last year. In October, Amazon.com introduced a vinyl-only store and increased its selection to 150,000 titles across 20 genres. Its biggest sellers? Alternative rock, followed by classic rock albums. "I'm not saying vinyl will become a mainstream format, just like gourmet eating is not going to take over from McDonald's," says Michael Fremer, senior contributing editor...
...deeply held values, involves a lot of winging it. In 1990, for instance, a sponge used in the headpiece of Florida's electric chair wore out. There's no factory or parts catalog for execution devices, so the prison sent a guy to pick up a sponge at the store. Problem was, he bought a synthetic sponge instead of a genuine sea sponge, and when Jesse Tafero was strapped in, his head caught fire. Florida officials diagnosed the problem afterward by testing a similar sponge in a toaster...