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...Fast-forward to November, when Fumihito showed imperial blood isn't much thicker than water when he announced at his 39th birthday press conference that his big brother's remarks in May had taken both himself and the Emperor by surprise. Fumihito deemed it "unfortunate" that his brother and father didn't have a heart-to-heart beforehand, and went on to add that he considered official duties "passive by nature...
...part of the pay grade around here, there are lots of problems. You learn to develop a hide a little thicker than a rhinoceros...
Freshman year, before he perfected the art of bondage, Mark was just beginning to build up his arsenal of SM paraphernalia. He bought leather shirts, floggers—shorter, thicker versions of whips—and 25-foot strings of rope. He even strung his own cat-o-nine-tails out of parachute rope. All of these items he hid away in the closet of his room. The closest SM/Leather retailer to Harvard is Hubba Hubba on Massachusetts Avenue, but Mark puts his money elsewhere, calling Hubba Hubba “ridiculously overpriced...
Soon sheets of rain whip against the plane's windows, dissolving the reassuring sight of the wings. On the radar screen in front of my seat, the red of the eyewall--the circle of turbulent storms that surrounds a hurricane's eye--grows thicker and more menacing. "The red fingers of death," pilot Mike Silah jokes grimly, and as if on cue, the plane--a Lockheed WP-3D Orion operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)--starts to pitch, roll and yaw, a small boat at the mercy of giant, invisible waves. I tighten the straps...
...that is. Researchers found that lab animals sometimes fed saccharin-sweetened liquid consumed more food than did rats given an equally sweet but always high-calorie liquid. (Rats given a high-cal supplement the consistency of milk also gained more weight than did rats fed a thicker, pudding-like substance.) The study's authors think the same phenomenon may hold true for humans: early on, we learn to sense how calorie-packed a food is?by its sweetness and viscosity, for example?which automatically keeps us from overindulging. But eating unnaturally sweetened, low-calorie foods may throw our instinct...