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...brass of the world's major soap companies running to their executive bathrooms, the American Medical Association announced Wednesday that they'd like to see the Food and Drug Administration step in and regulate anti-microbial agents in consumer products. The AMA is worried, it seems, that Americans' zest to rid their homes and bodies of all things bacterial may provide an opening for dangerous bacteria, whose numbers were previously kept under control by the presence of innocent, harmless microbes...
Volunteering to help others in faraway places is an increasingly popular vacation option, in which you can combine your zest for travel with the desire to do good...
What makes him a special piece of work, though, is that he openly boasts that he deliberately engineered the production of his two daughters to make the family rich. Giving new zest to the phrase refreshing candor, he told the Today show's Matt Lauer last Friday that the original idea for the manufacture of Venus and Serena came to him when he happened to see a woman win "$30 or $40 thousand" in a tennis tournament, "and she played four days!" Not Thomas Edison, not Alexander Graham Bell, not Bill Gates could have been more enthusiastically inspired...
...nation can abolish monarchy, as America did with zest in 1776. But it cannot so easily abolish the dynastic impulse. The American fascination with royalty shows itself most flagrantly in our obsession with the Kennedys, but familial succession permeates American political life. Look no further than the glamour races for election year 2000. The top two Republican candidates are the son of a former President and the wife of the party's last presidential candidate (joined at the top by the son of a famous plutocrat...
...show with Leo in 1965, with my 86-ft. painting F-111. Leo placed young artists' work in good collections and in museums throughout the world, even if he didn't make a big commission. He favored artists more than collectors and offered them stipends. He had a real zest for life. After he collapsed in 1976, the art world thought he was done for. But I'll never forget seeing Leo a year later at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool, proudly standing in his tiny swimsuit among the bikini-clad starlets--despite a new pacemaker visible under his chest...