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...from personal experience: weight-conscious women tend to skip meals before drinking, to conserve calories, making them more easily affected by alcohol. One simple solution: make sure they eat a hearty meal before they hit the bars. Patrick Kilcarr of Georgetown finds that nutrition information can be an effective tool. He asks the women he sees to tell him what they drink on a given night; then he pulls out a small chalkboard and crunches the numbers for them. "They are often flabbergasted to see they're drinking 3,000 calories in an evening," he says. "These are women...
Everyone has a dream, and Tim Leatherman's dream was simple: he wanted a single tool that was both a knife and a pair of pliers. In 1983, after years of tinkering, he created a distinctively double-jointed multitool that looks like two Swiss Army knives caught in the act of mating; in addition to a knife and pliers, it had a dozen other doodads on it to boot. Since then it has become a cult classic, with 25 million units sold; Sunday night's Oscar presenters got them in their gift baskets. And, yes, Leatherman is his real name...
Measured by the sheer number of doohickeys on board, these tools are about equal. They also weigh about the same, and locking mechanisms are standard across the board, so the blades won't close by accident and sever a finger. But look more closely, and you will see trade-offs. The SwissTool has a metal-saw blade, great for prison breaks, but it lacks scissors--a deal breaker in my book. The Leatherman has the most balanced selection, but it lacks the useful miniruler that's etched into the casings of the Swiss-Tool and the PowerLock...
...last week's Academy nominees' luncheon--until now a place for air kisses, not air strikes--the usually amiable Howard drew a link between political tricks and tactics directed at his film: "If there is an attack strategy that is a political tool--I guess really perfected by Lee Atwater working for George Bush on the Dukakis campaign--that it's about attempting to undermine another candidate's credibility, well, that's a shame." Terry Curtin, speaking for Universal, Howard's home studio, escalated the dudgeon. "It's gotten to be so dirty," she told the Washington Post, adding...
Trained as an aeronautical engineer, Schuh is designing a partnership between consulting firm A.T. KEARNEY and NASA, marketing the space agency's Mission Control techniques as a management tool for the car industry. At 36, the Viennese head of Kearney's global auto division has persuaded two European companies to coordinate planning, from suppliers to showroom, under one roof...