Word: extras
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...with these names?), travel instead to Rochester, Minn., and the Mayo Clinic. In Dr. Darryl Chutka's classroom, the 10 first-year medical students look a little different from what you might expect. They're all wearing goggles coated in a clear film, ear plugs, heavy rubber gloves, extra-thick socks. They also have marshmallows stuffed in their mouths, corn kernels scattered inside their shoes, stiff, confining braces around their necks--and enormous, padded diapers stuffed inside their underclothes...
...Devils teammates during the Stanley Cup finals, and even though the team is in a good mood after beating the Dallas Stars, 7-3, in Game 1 the night before, no one is helping him out. "Come on," he says to roommate Jason Arnott, "you don't have an extra shirt? You've got a better body than me. Let me wear yours...
Congratulations, ace. America's unprecedented economic gains were beaten out of your work-obsessed hide, and what have you got to show for it? A few extra bucks to pay the shrink or the barkeep? A promotion that bumps you up to 60 hours a week? A pager? The bone they haven't thrown you is the one you desperately need--more time away from the salt mine...
...empathize with them. As an 11-year-old, I tried desperately to hit that monster home run. But my teammates and I got our advantage with aluminum bats. Now youngsters who haven't even reached puberty are looking for that extra power with untested supplements consumed at levels that could cause untold physical consequences down the road. This is one instance when I'll take the good old days...
FEETS, DON'T FAIL ME NOW Ever think about all that extra energy you generate just walking around? British inventor Trevor Baylis has. Baylis, whose previous brainstorms include a clockwork radio, has announced the founding of a company to manufacture shoes that produce power using the natural motion of walking. This summer Baylis plans to test his shoes in Africa in a walk across the Namib Desert during which he'll place a phone call to PM Tony Blair (who else?) using only power made by the footwear. That's one small step...