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...Keeping up with the Abramoviches It's not hard to spot the influence of this aristocracy. At London's famed Harrods department store - a mecca for the moneyed international community - a personal shopping service allows globe-trotting customers to order a six-figure wardrobe with one phone call or arrange to have their yacht spruced up in 24 hours with a single e-mail. At Selfridges department store, a new one-stop luxury section called the Wonder Room brings together the classics - Chanel watches, Tiffany silverware, Hermès scarves - with more audacious items like the gold-plated, diamond-encrusted...
Another species of bird, the scrub jay, has challenged our supposedly unique gift of foresight. Scrub jays like to store food, and they remember thousands of different hiding places. Studies have shown that they make a special point of tucking food away when they expect they'll need it the next day. What makes the time-traveling and toolmaking of birds all the more impressive is that, unlike apes and monkeys, they don't share a close evolutionary history with us. They evolved these supposedly human features on a line parallel to the one we traveled--essentially developing the skills...
...aging, are generated. The body's stress response has a bigger effect on blood pressure, raising it higher than normal. People may notice they feel crummy a few hours after eating junk food. And the sudden surge and drop in insulin - the hormone that spurs your body to store energy - also leaves them feeling hungry again soon after eating, despite having had plenty of calories...
...there was the young man with a mental condition whose brother blasted him with a homemade shotgun because he wasn't taking his medicine. Crider's men heard the shot and came running. No one was really hurt and the young man is now working at a local grocery store. Then there was the time a local distinguished community leader complained to Crider's men that his son was addicted to pharmaceuticals and asked them to intervene. The Americans staged an intervention, scaring the young man straight with a fake urine test result...
...never really let up. How do you feel [here in New Zealand] when you go down to the grocery store and pass a $5 note with you picture on it? I don't spend a great deal of time thinking about that sort of thing...