Word: thinning
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SHEEP'S MILK Compared with standard cow's-milk yogurts, we thought sheep's-milk yogurt was thin. Old Chatham Sheepherding Company's full-fat plain yogurt was not very creamy--it tasted almost watery--and had a sharp, tangy flavor...
...Back in Bangkok, we crack open some beers, and the afternoon takes another turn for the weird. "I've got 600 ballpoint pens in a box under that desk," Swaffield says abruptly. "I still don't know what to do with them." Or with those wafer-thin frogs, peeled lovingly from roads around Siem Reap and now drying in his window box. He cranks up his Mac to display his latest work: bizarrely beautiful etchings of Angkorian temples where rioting fig-tree roots pulsate and twist in freakish homage to the stone gods. "Surreal, obviously," says Swaffield. Obviously...
From his tormented neurotic in River's Edge to his manic-nerd dad in Back to the Future, the thin, plain Glover has always popped on-screen. But he is perhaps most famous for a 1987 appearance on David Letterman in which a long-haired Glover yelled, "I can kick! I can kick!" and proceeded to kick inches from Letterman's face. His reputation also springs from the fact that his role in the Back to the Future sequels was filled in by a Glover look-alike with Gloveresque prosthetics. And quite a few people heard that...
Remember when hand-held computer gadgets were cool? When strangers on a bus would cast envious--or at least curious--glances at geeks and road warriors tapping away on their Palms and Blackberries? Lately the novelty has worn thin. With look-alikes proliferating and disposable income shrinking, sales of pricey personal digital assistants (PDAs) have sagged...
...just axed 19% of its employees, but the cuts might not have been so drastic had the company been able to get products like this wireless wonder out the door a little sooner. Designed primarily for communicating--via the Web, e-mail and a built-in cell phone--this thin, trim handheld is a well-focused success. You won't find any multimedia extras, not even an MP3 player, but you will get an unheard-of 10 hours of talk time, a sturdy metal stylus and a crisp 320x320-pixel display. The AT&T service lets you download data...