- Lizzie Widdicombe: The Leopard at des Artistes.
8220;If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change,” says a young aristocrat in “The Leopard,” the 1958 book by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and the 1963 Visconti movie, about the decline of the Italian ruling class during the Risorgimento. It . . ....
- Buy a 4×4 and Get Endless Opportunities for Accessorising
Over the last few years, 4x4 vehicles have become more and more popular with a whole range of people, from young professionals who want a good looking car to travel to work in, to families who need a larger vehicle to be able to fit all the family in. The main thing about pickups and 4x4s are that they are incredibly versatile and can cope with so many different jobs....
- Suburban Headlights – Keep Up the Excitement
How much you will like your car depends not only on how good a product the car is but also on how much you enjoy change in your life. If you do not like much change in your life you can buy a very reliable and durable car and use it for a long time. And if you do like change in your life you will perhaps want to change your car even though it can give you a great performance for a few more...
- Head Injury in Young Athletes
More young people of both genders are participating in organized sports than ever. There are intrinsic differences in the young athlete that make them more vulnerable to injury because both the brain and body are still growing and have not reached their full mature potential. 1.2 million young athletes play football in the United States each week. 50% of them are likely to have a concussion...
- Sports Styling From the Professionals
Vehicle modifying can significantly change the appearance of your vehicle. In this article, we look at various the most common methods....
- Lizzie Widdicombe: Van Cleef & Arpels diamonds on display.
Paris, France, sometime in the nineteen-fifties. A woman walks into Van Cleef & Arpels and falls in love with a diamond necklace. It’s expensive—say, four hundred thousand francs. “Listen,” she tells the jeweller, “tomorrow I’m going to come with my . . ....
- How to Convert Gasoline to Electric Car – Like a Professional
Change they say, it is the only permanent thing in the world. Change in car manufacturing in recent years is very important, in the face growing climate change and high prices of gas....
- Lizzie Widdicombe: Kids get real on MTV’s “Skins.”
Six years ago, in Bristol, England, the television writer Bryan Elsley was brainstorming ideas for a new series—cop show? courtroom drama?—and he approached his nineteen-year-old son, Jamie Brittain, for advice. The response was tough but useful. “He basically told me all my ideas . . ....
- Will All These Future Electric Cars Hurt the Oil Change Industry in 2010?
The more things change, the more they seem the same, and that is especially true with business and industry. Often we believe that things are going to change very rapidly, and new innovations are going to take over and change the world or the industry subsector that we are in. However, it usually turns out, that things do not change very fast; consumer buying behavior doesn't change all...
- The 10,000 Mile Discount Oil Change
If you're a 3,000 mile engine oil change purist, news about tire shops now offering a 10,000 mile oil change may seem contrary to everything you've heard about how frequently you should change your motor oil. However, a 10,000 mile synthetic oil change has a lot of scientific strength behind it. High quality synthetic motor oil offers some impressive advantages and can also save you money...
- Lizzie Widdicombe: Quentin Rowan, a.k.a. Q. R. Markham, plagiarism addict.
Spy novels embrace clichés—the double agent, the bomb-rigged briefcase—and “Assassin of Secrets,” published last fall, made a virtue of this tendency, piling one trope onto another to create a story that rang with wry knowingness. The book is set in the . . ....
- Get Involved in Animal Welfare
I will be the first to tell you that that state of animal treatment in the United States and the world is poor at best. There are just too many bad cases and troubled situations for one person or one group to deal with. That is absolutely correct. Nothing will change without a movement. Action by ordinary people on the grassroots level. We cannot depend on government bureaucracy and underpaid...
- Injuries in Young Athletes
Young people of all ages are more involved in sports than ever before. More than three million sports injuries to children under the age of 15 require medical treatment in the United States each year. These affect both genders through a wide range of sports that are both individual and team sports. Children are intrinsically more vulnerable to injury because they are still growing and developing....
- Lizzie Widdicombe: The taxi-driver’s advocate.
On Houston Street at Avenue A the other day, a woman stuck out her hand to hail a taxi. It was cold and drizzly—hyper-competitive cab-hailing conditions—but she was likely to have better luck than most people. The woman was Bhairavi Desai, the executive director . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Happiness is Taking Care of Your Health
First of all I want you to know that medical care in the United States is the best in the world for certain acute care needs like emergencies. My own life was saved by a team of professionals. If I get hurt I want to be in the USA. You cannot beat USA acute care....
- Taking Care of Young Pets
Young pets are more sensitive than grown pets. They require more attention and at times, they need someone to watch over them all day....
- Is the 3,000-Mile Oil Change Necessary Or is it Just Marketing?
Do you really know when you should change your oil? You may be surprised that you don't have to change your oil every 3,000 miles like you've heard in the past....
- Lizzie Widdicombe: You’ve Got Mail
Moral-reasoning pop quiz: There’s a film coming out—a thinly disguised portrayal of a media mogul—and word is that if it’s released it will hurt the mogul’s reputation. Powerful people intervene: they call a meeting and offer the movie studio . . ....
- Hendrik Hertzberg: Obama’s fighting words.
President Obama’s first State of the Union address came at the end of the most harrowing nine days of his young Administration. On January 19th, a Republican won the Massachusetts seat that had been held for nearly half a century by Edward M. Kennedy, thereby depriving the Senate . . ....
- Lizzie Widdicombe: America’s homemade fallout shelters through the years.
If you stopped by the International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Javits Center last week, you may have noticed, tucked among the minimalist mirrors and squiggly light fixtures, a booth containing shelves packed with more practical goods—toilet paper, anchovies, bottled water, powdered Jell-O. This was a fallout . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Lizzie Widdicombe: Defending the accused after a giant Mob bust.
It’s a common refrain, among the city’s armchair criminologists, that the Mob is dead in New York. So last Thursday’s giant federal Mob bust—a hundred and twenty-seven people, encompassing seven crime families—elicited a special fascination. It seemed almost nostalgic . . ....
- Lizzie Widdicombe: Defending the accused after a giant Mob bust.
It’s a common refrain, among the city’s armchair criminologists, that the Mob is dead in New York. So last Thursday’s giant federal Mob bust—a hundred and twenty-seven people, encompassing seven crime families—elicited a special fascination. It seemed almost nostalgic . . ....
- Barbra Streisand’s Change of Heart
What singer, actor, and director Barbra Streisand is doing to change the state of women's heart health....
- Trends and Tips in Fitness For 2010
A tighter budget and an increasing lack of time will change the way people will be working out in 2010 and forcing professional trainers to come up with more cost-effective programs. According to a recent poll of fitness professionals conducted by the American Council on Exercise (ACE) the focus in 2010 will be on maximizing impact and minimizing costs....
- The Young Man and the Woods (Part I of II)
He was a young man who hunted alone in the Deep Woods (of Northern Minnesota), and he had gone forty-five days now without taking a wolf, in the first fifteen-days, a young girl had been waiting, for him. But thirty-days, without a wolf the young woman's mother told her, that her young man was by far having the worse bad luck any man can have, and consequently, that she should look for...
- Lizzie Widdicombe: Occupy Wall Street, a culture of its own.
Visiting the site of Occupy Wall Street last week—a month after the protest began, and shortly before Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s threatened and aborted cleanup—was a bit like visiting a civilization at its peak: Paris in the twenties, Rome in the second century, or, at . . ....
- New Teen Driving Laws For New York
In an effort to limit the risks young drivers are exposed to in their first years of driving, the State of New York has enacted new laws that impose stricter limits on young drivers. The new laws, which took effect on February 22, 2010, strengthen New York's Graduated Driving Law (GDL) for drivers under the age of 21....
- Lizzie Widdicombe: David Burke Kitchen in SoHo.
David Burke Kitchen, in the James Hotel, in SoHo, is the place to see David Burke—the man who brought cheesecake lollipop trees to Bloomingdale’s and pupu platters to the Hawaiian Tropic Zone, in Times Square—get on board with the farm-to-table craze. If . . ....
