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...Literal punching is not recommended, except when dealing with members of the Fly. Aim for the spot right between their upturned collar and their backwards visor...
...every team has a shot, every year. Who would have thought Carolina, Minnesota and Kansas City would be undefeated going into week seven? Last year, Atlanta surprised. Two years ago, New England came out of nowhere. Every team, except the Bengals and Cardinals, has a legitimate shot to win the Super Bowl every year...
...really fun to watch, except for one thing—when the defense plays extremely well, the offense can?...
...bullish on shale, coal and other synfuels in 1980, Washington soon cooled to the idea, as it had done in the past. After 1980, the Reagan Administration thought private industry, not government, should shoulder all the costs. Subsidies were reduced, and in 1985 the Administration killed the entire program, except for the synthetic-fuels tax credit. "The Administration no longer believes continued funding of the Synthetic Fuels Corp. serves any useful purpose," Budget Director James Miller told Congress. Former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, among others, considered Washington's outlook to be shortsighted: "America's energy policy is zigzagging through history...
...sunny afternoon in San Francisco's bustling Powell Street shopping district, swarms of spendthrifts bypass the Body Shop, which is empty except for the employees, to browse around Lush, a rival British skin-care boutique located a block away. With cakes of multihued soap piled high in the window, this whimsical cosmetics grocer packages its fresh, handmade lotions in what appear to be pints of ice cream--complete with sell-by dates--and arranges fistfuls of bath salts in produce-like pyramids of color. An overzealous employee is roaming the store, commanding shoppers to sniff the new Honey, I Washed...