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...British doctors estimate 2,000 people contract the condition each year, 15 of them fatally. "It's the sitting still that does the damage," says Patrick Kesteven, a consultant hematologist at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, northern England. "And the one place that 99% of us sit still longest, in the most discomfort, is on an airplane...
...fifteenth book written or edited by the man who wrote the longest undergraduate thesis at Harvard is itself most notable for its attempt to play it safe...
Sheesh. What's next for those longest-of-suffering football fans otherwise known as the backers of the New Orleans Saints - plagues of locusts? The legendarily bad team experienced a renaissance last year, making the NFL playoffs, and now team owner Tom Benson wants to move the squad to - Mississippi...
...long. Breault's childhood will officially end in August when Bozo, the country's longest-running kids' TV character, goes off the air in Chicago, the last city where he still takes pratfalls. With its relentlessly slapsticky approach to entertaining kids, and competition from edgier children's fare on channels like Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network, "this type of programming is a dinosaur," says Joey D'Auria, a former stand-up comic who has played Bozo on Chicago's WGN since 1984. The station's general manager, John Vitanovec, calls cancellation of the low-rated show "strictly a strategic decision...
When you've seen all there is to see around Chittagong, hop on a bus south to Cox's Bazar. Five hours later, the scent of salt water lets you know you've arrived at the longest beach in the world, a jungle-lined stretch of white sand that runs unbroken for 120 km. Women can forget about soaking up the rays in skimpy swimsuits unless they want to attract a whirling crowd of oglers. In Bangladesh, ladies take the surf in full sari. Muslim beach etiquette aside, Cox's Bazar has all the potential of a serene seaside getaway...