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...popular fiction. Helen Fielding, author of the best-selling Bridget Jones's Diary, has launched an "Ask Bridget" service with Finnish wireless entertainment publisher RIOT-E. For 34 cent, subscribers can dial up a daily text message from Fielding - writing in characteristic Bridget Jones mode - on the quest for thinner thighs and inner poise. "Mobile phones are a perfect way to add another dimension to book characters," says Jan Wellman, RIOT-E's chief executive...
...says, "I have a certain comfort level in making some recommendations because there are other good reasons for preventing strokes, for reading, for taking folic acid. If our findings showed something that had no other known benefit besides preventing Alzheimer's, then we would be on much thinner ice." Even so, it's not clear precisely how much folic acid to take, and Snowdon's team is divided on whether to boost the intake of vitamins C and E beyond the normal recommended doses (Markesbery says yes; Snowdon says not until we know more...
APRES ASPIRIN A blood thinner called clopidogrel can reduce the risk of fatal and nonfatal heart attacks and strokes 20% in folks with unstable angina, according to a study of 12,500 subjects worldwide. Clopidogrel is already used after angioplasty procedures--Vice President Dick Cheney took it--but this latest study may make it the most significant advance in the management of heart disease since aspirin. If only clopidogrel were as cheap: it costs about $3 a pill...
...smoke from smoothed-out tinfoil sheets folded in two, holding a lighter beneath the foil so that the shards of shabu liquefied, turning to a thick, pungent, milky vapor. The smoke tasted like a mixture of turpentine and model glue; to this day I can't smell paint thinner without thinking of smoking speed...
...name of the magazine, as shown on each week's cover and all promotional materials, to read "TIME--featuring the columnistic stylings of Joel Stein." I would get to put back every penis joke my editor cuts. I wanted to fire this cartoonist and hire someone who draws a "thinner, smaller-nosed, more Stamosesque version of me." I asked for more money. I also threw in something about a "lap-dance allowance" because there was some room at the bottom of the e-mail...