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Honduras has a new President, at least in name: wealthy cattle rancher Porfirio Lobo, who won 56% of the vote in the nation's Nov. 29 elections. But supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, deposed in a June coup, are urging Hondurans to reject the new government, while neighboring states have said they will not restore ties unless Zelaya is reinstated to finish his term. The U.S. is under fire for saying it would recognize Lobo's government regardless...
Steampunk has been around for at least 30 years, with roots going back further. An early example is K.W. Jeter's 1979 novel Morlock Night, a sequel to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine in which the Morlocks travel back in time to invade 1890s London. Steampunk--Jeter coined the name--was already an established subgenre by 1990, when William Gibson and Bruce Sterling introduced a wider audience to it in The Difference Engine, a novel set in a Victorian England running Babbage's hardware and ruled by Lord Byron, who had escaped death in Greece...
...Several women told me about comments I'd written in their yearbooks about their breasts. When I went up to a woman named Dana and told her that she looked exactly the same, she said, "But you never thought I looked good." I, for some reason, said, "But at least you don't look any worse," and walked away. Coors Lights can really pile...
...least that's how it worked for Food Network host and best-selling cookbook author Alton Brown, who one day saw himself on TV and noticed he was a doughy 213 lb. Then he started noticing the size of his fans. "I'd go to appearances and see an audience of very heavy people. And I thought, 'What role do I have in that?," says Brown, who is thinking about writing a book about the 50 lb. he has lost since March. "Celebrity chefs are the high priests of the food craze that is partly responsible for the fattening...
...national romance with consumer debt seems to be coming, at least for now, to a screeching halt because of the realities of the Great Recession. Belt-tightening, whether it's imposed by job loss or financial insecurity, is de rigueur. The savings rate is 4.4%, up from its 2007 rock-bottom level. Book publishers are hurrying to catch up with the rediscovered restraint. Three authors with new books are eager to restore fiscal conservatism to its proper, vaunted role. Being thrifty has become a badge of honor...