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...what to eat and drink? Perhaps the best known--and best behaved--is the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, based in Washington. The CSPI earned its biggest headlines for its 1994 expose of movie-theater popcorn, a study that revealed the supposedly healthy snack to be swollen with calories and swimming in fat. Dieters were stunned, and many movie houses quickly switched to lighter oils in their popping machines--earning the CSPI kudos...
...Silence. The house chills down in an hour or two. Water in the pipes jells up and starts to freeze. The radiator in the downstairs bedroom cracks. A case of Diet Cokes in the kitchen bloats to solid ice, each can swollen to bursting, like the Incredible Hulk. Now the water pipes give way. We step outside for firewood to stoke the wood stove, and we gasp: Our breath emerges in jagged-crystal puffs under a cold headlight moon...
...perennial symptom of youth or maybe even the human condition and no reflection on the merits of my education. However, my refined ability to argue a thesis in five to seven pages, double-spaced, does me no good at all in even attempting to broach them. If anything my swollen rational capacities make it more difficult for me to find anything to believe in, any source of beautiful illogical inspiration...
What with lingering questions about Social Security and the demise of the traditional pension, Americans have embraced stocks as never before. The number of individuals owning stocks or stock funds has swollen to 78 million, up from 42 million in 1983. Our 401(k) accounts are bulging, and there is encouraging evidence that the masses are behaving smartly--by diversifying and holding for long periods...
...other hand, there's Carol Pighini, 43, a mother of three from Florida. Bothered by some broken capillaries on her face, she picked a dermatologist in Tampa through an ad for gentler Erbium YAG laser treatments. To her horror, her face blistered for three days afterward, her eyes were swollen shut, and pits formed in her skin. "When the laser started hurting, I asked what was happening, and they said they had 'turned it up.'" She says with a sigh, "All this because I couldn't stand wearing makeup." Lancer, the Beverly Hills dermatologist, is now removing the damage with...