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...girl who was to become my wife was standing at the top of some stone museum steps that I was climbing,” explains the narrator of “Museums and Women,” the title story of a 1972 collection. “Though it was bitterly cold, with crusts of snow packed into the stone, she wore threadbare sneakers from which her little toes stuck out, and she was smoking….I pursued her through the museum. It was, as museums go, rather intimate, built around a skylight-roofed replica of a sixteenth-century...
...their collective weight begins to rise. As developing areas like, for example, Southeast Asia and Latin America catch up economically and the inhabitants adopt Western lifestyles, their problems with obesity catch up as well. By contrast, among people who still live in conditions most like those of our distant Stone Age ancestors--such as the Maku or the Yanomami of Brazil--there is virtually no obesity...
...business over to him. Ernesto Sr. died in 1980. El Credito's focus on premium lines paid off in the early '90s, gaining the company notice during the cigar boom. An article in Cigar Aficionado magazine sparked a flood of orders, causing a six-month backlog. Bill Cosby, Sharon Stone and Arnold Schwarzenegger became loyal clients, says Perez-Carillo...
...Authority and the Iraqi Ministry of Trade organize the weekly meeting for Iraqi companies hoping to find work as subcontractors to firms such as Halliburton, the biggest contractor in Iraq. "Our goal is to help you make contact with the prime contractors," Orr said. Halim, like the others, sat stone-faced and unconvinced. Orr tried to be encouraging but gave few answers for what a growing number of disaffected Iraqis say is a system designed to shut them out of their own country's economic recovery...
...Manhattan-based nail boutique and spa, offers Tip-Toes, ready-to-wear nail falsies (kits are $10). You can order Levine's foot-facial kit ($50) at www.footfacial.com or, for less cash, try Burt's Bees ($10), a foot-care kit that contains Coconut Foot Creme, a pumice stone and yellow socks to protect pampered little piggies. --By Alix Strauss