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...easy patois for slapstick--Ben Franklin gives people electric shocks as a bar trick, and George Washington gets high on the hemp from his own farm and speaks Yiddish. In Gravity's Rainbow, Tyrone Slothrop engages in a Malcolm X-assisted dive into a jazz-club toilet bowl that puts Trainspotting to shame. And in V., the New York City department of sanitation has a division arming men to kill the alligators in the sewers...
...women don't get their recommended daily allowance of calcium, and 70% don't get enough iron. While women are clearly better off munching leafy greens or low-fat yogurt than relying on fortified foods, it's also clear that many of them aren't doing it. If a bowl of fortified oatmeal in the morning gets them going, nutritionists say, it's better than nothing...
...drank from the finger bowl b) drank from the bidet c) used "receptivity" without stumbling d) suggested the Tuileries would make "awesome T-ball field, French dude...
...replete with Frette linens, Ginori porcelain, thick cotton robes and towels in the pink-marbled bathroom and an immense, multicolored Murano glass chandelier in the bedroom. There was also a chilled bottle of Ferrari sparkling wine (one of Italy's finest), a huge vase of flowers and a silver bowl of fresh fruit--all compliments of the hotel. During that magical week, we visited museums--including the Palazzo Grassi's stunning exhibition on the Etruscans--took long walks, dined out and window-shopped. Just before we flew home in first-class comfort, we attended a brilliant performance of the Four...
...Kathmandu international airport, waiting for the flight out of Nepal that will eventually return him to Golden, Colo., is surrounded by his teammates and the expedition's 75 pieces of luggage. Success has made the group jubilant. This airport lounge has become the mountaineering equivalent of a winning Super Bowl locker room. As they sit amid their luggage, holding Carlsberg beers, they frequently raise a toast. "Shez! Shez!" shouts a climber. That's Nepali for drink! drink! "No epics," a climber chimes in, citing what really matters: no one died...