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...warn the occupants to restrain their snarling mastiff. Let the horsemen deal with formal greetings. They'll produce a snuff bottle from the upper folds of their gowns, which double as carryalls, and hand it over for a snort while exchanging a long handshake. Bring appetite enough for thick, yak-milk yogurt, cheese and marmot meat hot from a dung-fired stove. Try fermented cow's or mare's milk. After a bowl or two, you'll be ready to invade Europe yourself...
...part of the club scene, parapara might seem the antithesis of cool, but it's just the thing for a generation raised on Gameboys. At Isn't It?, the cigarette smoke is thick and the drinks of choice are Tequila shots for boys and peach fizzes for girls. In a room full of liquored-up teens and 20-somethings, you'd expect a little sexual tension. Instead, there's a vibe of intense concentration, almost studiousness, as the guys and girls, many with matching dyed-blond locks, go through the parapara motions between the tables and chairs, while staring...
...assorted other highflyers and lowlifes was getting a little spooky. It was time to tap on the lid of the trunk and see if Houdini was still alive in there. Now he got help from the Old Guard, the magician's assistants who had stuck by him through thick and thin and thick. Here came faithful fund raiser Beth Dozoretz, who we learn was cleared by the Secret Service to visit the White House 76 times in the past two years, declining to tell the congressional investigators whether her fund-raising efforts for the Clinton library had anything...
...pragmatism than principle. She spent months "consumed" by the SATs, investing countless hours--and more than $1,000--in tutoring to lift her scores. Then she toured Mount Holyoke, loved the campus and heard about its new SAT-optional stance. She submitted an early-decision application and received a thick acceptance letter in January. Says Lis: "It just appealed to me that they wanted to look at me as a person, the whole package." So she let them see it all--minus her SATs...
...suppose we applied the reliability standards and pricing schemes of New Economy products to the items above. One-inch-thick steel would only be 1 in. thick on weekend nights and holidays. During weekday business hours, it would be one-third of an inch thick; and if one carried the steel outside one's "area," it would cost six times as much. Refrigerators would chill eggs and butter for only three or four hours before they "crashed," entailing a call to an 800 number. A pound of wheat would be a pound of wheat*--meaning that it would neither weigh...