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...Harmful if Swallowed,” on the verge of going platinum, Cook has made a huge leap from the days when he was selling that same album as a cassette tape on his website. But in a nationwide conference call held two weeks ago, Cook showed that such wild success hasn’t gone to his head. When asked what he would do if he were walking down the street when he knew no one was watching, he responded, “I would start dancing,” and said he hoped everyone around him would break...
...Progress is often measured in small victories. For example, Nando says her group convinced a local official to refrain from opening a restaurant that featured dishes made from the area's wild birds. But they are also tackling greater challenges. Aceh's forests are the most ecologically diverse in Indonesia, but clearcutting has taken a heavy toll. FFI was able to convince the heads of six Acehnese villages that reckless logging was destroying their future...
...call the mountain, it's on the route of the best alpine garbageman in the world. His name is Ken Noguchi, and he is an unlikely candidate for such unglamorous work. The son of a wealthy Japanese diplomat and an Egyptian mother, Noguchi grew up as something of a wild child; he says his family was too busy to pay attention to him. His anxious father sent him to boarding school in England when he was 12, but Noguchi was just as lost there. "I was a dropout," he says. "What I sought was my own world." When he discovered...
...Brent Bauer, the Mayo Clinic's alternative-medicine specialist. Mangosteens contain antioxidants called xanthones that have been shown to stop certain bacteria and fungi in lab tests. Yet independent-distributor sites claim the juice helps everything from Alzheimer's disease to kidney stones. XanGo's Morton concedes that wild claims are being made. "With 600,000 distributors, some stuff gets past our compliance [measures]," he says. "Overpromising and underdelivering is a problem in any company, from painting houses to selling cars...
...balanced inquisitions a “hit job” (perhaps the most graphic two-word “job” ever performed on the former president). Fox chief Roger Ailes was, like most decent Americans, taken aback by Clinton’s “wild overreaction.” Ailes took a charitable view of the incident, characterizing it as “an assault on all journalists.” Yes, Clinton had wiles enough to center his attack on Fox News, striking at the head and heart of the journalistic profession in one swift blow...