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Expectations come at a price. Dubbed the "Jesus Phone," the iPhone has raised the bar of consumer anticipation so high that regardless of how well it actually works, some will be disappointed. Steve Jobs hopes to sell 10 million of his newest toy by the end of next year, but there are several factors that may spoil the iPhone party...
...that prevents cities and local municipalities from passing more restrictive laws than the state. It's just getting harder to refute the scientific evidence; in a study done in Scotland several months after that nation instituted a ban on smoking in public places, researchers found that following the ban, bar patrons showed stronger lung capacity and reduced levels of inflammation (a red flag for a number of chronic diseases, including heart disease and asthma). "We made it pretty clear that the science on this is pretty irrefutable," says McKenna. And if smokers have fewer places to smoke, that message...
...largely due to one woman: choreographer Serena Wilson. In the '60s she opened her renowned New York City studio--among the first in the U.S. to focus exclusively on belly dancing--and over four decades helped bring the rhythmic dancing into the mainstream. To combat its sexualized image, Wilson barred her dancers from performing at male gatherings (bar mitzvahs included). She was 73 and died from a pulmonary embolism...
...plain peanut butter. Go to the gym? Might make me hungrier afterwards. I even opted out of the house meal budget so as not to waste my small savings on luxuries like spices and meat. Frozen meals were for the well-heeled and well-fed. Finding a granola bar in my suitcase was an occasion for outright celebration...
...sleeveless khaki-colored T-shirt, he looks - at least from the upper ranks of the auditorium - more like a Gap model than a 65-year old rock 'n' roll legend. He is joined onstage by an orchestra and a girl's choir, while a video-clip of a Berlin bar is projected onto the backrop. The atmosphere is tense; expectations are high. Does Reed still have "it" or has he "lost it", as the character Sick Boy maintains in the movie Trainspotting. Do these songs still resonate in a Berlin that bears little resemblance to the city that inspired them...