ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Web site helps you find fuel-efficient ride
Advertiser Staff
Want to trade in your gas guzzler for something a little more fuel efficient? Check out www.fueleconomy.com, which features a list of the best and worst cars, trucks and SUVs. The site also has a handy tool to check the gas mileage on most makes, models and years of cars. Winning the award for most fuel-efficient is the Honda Insight, which gets a mind-blowing 61 miles per gallon in the city. The least fuel-efficient: the Bentley Continental GT, which gets about 11 miles per gallon. That 2000 Honda Civic you've been wanting to upgrade — which gets a decent 30 miles per gallon — is starting to look pretty good again.
BEAUTY
THE NOSE KNOWS THE SMELL OF YOUTH
Anti-aging creams are everywhere. Plastic surgery rates are soaring. But in the fight to look and feel younger, no one has paid much attention to the magic of smell. Enter Alan Hirsch, the neurological doctor who heads the Smell and Taste Research Foundation in Chicago. He says a recent study indicated that men associate the fragrance of grapefruit with younger women.
The foundation tested a variety of odors, including broccoli and lavender. In most tests, men detected older women in a negative way. But with a little dab of grapefruit, the reaction was more positive. Hirsch can't explain it. Maybe it has something to do with home and mother. Maybe it has to do with sexual arousal, he says. In any event, several commercial fragrances that boast the citrusy scent of grapefruit are on the market.
FINAL WORD
"I don't like ringtones — I just want to hear a regular ring. I think ringtones are annoying. I'm not that hip."
Rapper Andre 3000 | in InStyle magazine