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...food that induces tears can also be helpful. Super-sour lemon candies pucker cheeks and make eyes round. Powdered seeds of rare, blistering Thai peppers can easily be concealed as a light red dust on the end of a pencil. An innocent chewing of the eraser will give the tongue a burning wake-up jolt that should last a good 15 minutes...
...thought Game Boy was finished," says Masakazu Kubo, executive producer of the publishing company Shogakukan Inc. "No toymakers were interested either." Spiffier graphics and more intricate games were going to be available on CD-ROM for use on home computers, leaving the tiny images on Game Boy in the dust. "When I finished Pokemon," says Tajiri, "I thought Nintendo would reject it. I was like a baseball player sliding into second base knowing he's going to be out. But somehow, I was safe...
With less than three months to go before the Iowa contest, the heavyweights challenging him on the right have bitten the dust, leaving only novelty candidates like Alan Keyes and Gary Bauer. John McCain is not competing in Iowa. And Bush, the stealth candidate, is getting hit when he comes out of hiding. Forbes, who usually sounds like the disembodied voice that tells you to "Press 1" to be connected to the next available customer representative, is actually animated when he talks about Bush's failing the latest pop quiz. "Everyone would understand if he didn't know...
...blast of optimism in the form of "Smile," in which Sam and Janet start off with sugary harmonies over a bouncing beat. Then the lyrics begin to take hold and things turn sour in a hurry. "You lost your health/Never had no wealth/So tighten up your belt/As you gather dust on some self." Coomes has gained a reputation among indie-pop circles for writing nihilistic lyrics that make the script for "Fight Club" read like a kids' book. The song concludes with the moral of the story: "Others have it worse/So smile/It's not so bad." Somehow, Sam doesn...
Protected by dust masks and rubber gloves, these workers opened 31 trash bags and meticulously sorted the refuse they found inside. This sorting was part of Harvard's second annual trash audit, aimed at finding out how much of what Harvard students throw away could be recycled...