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...biggest catch is that you have to eat three servings a day for the rest of your life. When test subjects stopped using the spreads, their cholesterol levels crept back up within a week. It's sort of like taking medicine--medicine that costs as much as $5 for a week's supply...
...Hideous Men is meant to interrogate the reader, to elicit fresh responses to horrors that have lost their edge in the age of information overload. Sometimes this works; when it doesn't, we get a facetious exercise like the "pop quizzes" in Octet that pose dire situations mimicking academic test questions...
ALLERGIC TO SHOTS? When doctors test for allergies, they often use a method that's scary enough to send anyone into a wheezing fit: they inject up to 50 allergens under the skin and then wait to see which causes a reaction. But the practice may be unnecessary. In pinpointing, for example, cat allergies, the shots turn out to be no more effective than lightly pricking the skin with an allergen or simply testing the blood...
...scared, said the boy, as he took the gun out of his mouth and fell into the arms of the assistant principal, who had come to take it away from him. It's the last day of school, exam time, and we all are scared, because this is a test we can't seem to pass. We had exactly a month to prepare since the last school shooting splattered the questions all over our desks: What is wrong with our kids, and our culture, and our schools and our hearts? What will need to happen so that this...
...hardest exams, for once, are the take-home tests. And this time, it's a test of our will and reflexes. We've had a chance to look at the precious microculture of our own household and study its condition. But how many of us actually did anything differently? Spent more time with our children, or someone else's? Came home a little earlier? Skipped a meeting? Turned off the TV? Called other parents, called a teacher, volunteered to help with some after-school activity--Girl Scouts, theater, baseball--that will happen only if enough grownups show...