Word: sweets
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...rest of the young’uns are cute even in their one-dimensionality. A geek, a white ghetto boy, a loner, a hippie, and a tough guy (a-bit-too-cutely-named Warren Peace) are among the Sidekicks attending Sky High. They are predictable, though sweet in their lack of power—one melts, one glows, and another can even turn into a guinea...
...Washington will do what Washington too often does in a time of crisis: point fingers. Florida Senator Bill Nelson--famous for having sweet-talked his way onto the same shuttle Columbia when he was a Congressman, landing just 10 days before the Challenger disaster sobered the space community to the risks of such joyrides--has been warning colleagues that budget cutbacks threatened to compromise spacecraft safety. "I have been perhaps the sharpest critic in Congress about the slowing down of safety upgrades," he says...
...that remained was for Alsop to address the troops. She kept it short--six minutes, by her reckoning--and sweet: "I said, 'Listen, I don't know how this got to this place. But I need to know that we're a team. It'll be hard for me, and I can put this behind us if you can.'" Alsop offered to leave the room and let the musicians talk it over among themselves. "I didn't even get backstage. They said, 'Come back!' It was nice. If anything this week could have been nice, that was it." --With reporting...
...hasn't bet a nickel since 1989, Bruce Roberts spends a lot of time in casinos. He's rarely there alone, however. He usually has an escort walk him through--the better to ensure that he doesn't succumb to the sweet swish of the cards or the signature rattle of the dice. A onetime compulsive gambler, Roberts, 62, weathered his years of wagering better than many. He never lost his wife or his home--although he has refinanced the house nine times. "Cards and Vegas were the two biggest things in my life," he says. "I'm a helluva...
Owners of chocolate lounges say their clientele is about 60% women, but men are discovering that they make a sweet spot for dates. Ethel's manager Rugya Marshall says plenty of single guys find their way to her counter. "You'd think the pink would scare them," she says, "but they're pretty brave when it comes to chocolate." --With reporting by Leron Kornreich/Los Angeles and Golnoush Niknejad/New York