Word: everly
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...first time I ever heard my mother sound nervous was last July, and by then she had been dead for two years. I was at the L.B.J. library in Austin, Texas, listening to a telephone call she had placed to President Lyndon Johnson more than four years before I was born. "Nancy Dickerson is on line two," begins the White House operator. Johnson picks up: "Yes, honey." She tries to start with a joke, but it warbles out: "The next time I need a new swimming suit I'm going to consult you." The President is silent, having forgotten...
...Mills, Schellhaass doesn't create the most inspiring flavors (not counting Key-lime-pie yogurt), but she does make food that most of us actually eat. Like Go-Gurt, this yogurt-in-a-tube thing that has become a sensation among kids. It is the fastest-selling yogurt product ever released and one of General Mills' biggest market entrants in its 72-year history. (The key: Go-Gurt's tube means no spoon is required.) The company has sold $340 million worth of Go-Gurt, according to an independent researcher, and General Mills has dethroned Dannon as the nation...
Have Jacobson's junk-food jihads worked? "Michael's ideas about diet and health were seen as way out there 20 years ago," says former FDA commissioner David Kessler. "Now they are mainstream." Translation: we may be fatter than ever, but at least we are feeling guiltier about it. Jacobson, 57, spits out new initiatives faster than you can say olestra (slapped with a gastrointestinal warning, thanks to C.S.P.I.). He dreams of fast-food outlets listing calories. "I can just see it," he sighs. "Big Mac: 560 calories, $2.19." He's urging a federally funded campaign to promote five daily...
...Lloyd's of London the Lutine bell--salvaged from a wrecked Royal Navy frigate of the same name--was traditionally rung once to signify disaster and twice to herald a ship's safe return. The ritual ended in the 1980s, but if ever an excuse to revive it were needed, it came last week. After a 20-week courtroom conflict described by Justice Peter Cresswell as "the largest and most complex piece of civil litigation this jurisdiction has ever seen," Lloyd's was found not guilty of defrauding investors. A jubilant Lloyd's chairman Max Taylor refrained from giving...
...light of their own, which contaminates celestial images. That's why NASA's plan to launch a Next Generation Space Telescope by 2009 still makes sense. With an 8-m mirror of its own, NGST will be able to see distant galaxies, for example, that no earthly telescope could ever see through the glare of its own heat...