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...canvas tote has its limits. "I have five kids," she explains, which adds up to a lot of groceries--and she's still not willing to ditch the plastic when bringing home a smelly fish or other items with leak potential. But the combination of stylish looks and too-thin wallets may drive real change. Thousands of shoppers camped out in Dublin in July to get a Hindmarch bag. And many of this season's trendy $15 eco-tote bags have been selling on eBay for more than $400. Which means that this year's environmental slogan could be reduce...
...exception. From the first day, my wife has been fattening me like a biblical calf. I gained 25 lbs. in our first two years of holy, roly-poly matrimony. I expanded more or less instantly, an air bag deployed in an accident. But my wife has remained obstinately thin, and that is refreshing. It means that society hasn't yet completely segregated along waistlines, fat people over here, skinny people over there--though we may be headed in that direction...
Happily, that isn't yet the case. For while the study can explain some friendships--the cast of The Facts of Life, for instance, or the together-through-thin-and-thinner bond of Paris & Nicole--it doesn't account for so many of history's finest partnerships: Laurel & Hardy, Skipper & Gilligan, Abbott & Costello, Siskel & Ebert, and those most enduring of all buddies, Ernie & Bert...
...knew him slightly and spent some time with him. He was thin as a wire and athletic and energetic and mentally alert. And he was a wonderful ping-pong player. I played with him; he always won because he had a great reach. That was his game...
...peptide. After doctors excise a tumor, they use a special camera that captures nearinfrared photons to then look at the body and see any stray cells the scalpel left behind. At those wavelengths, light from the fluorescent marker cannot be blocked by blood, other body fluids or even thin bone...