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By Tom Samiljan, Details magazine

This technology will take your workouts to the next level:

1 | Garmin Edge 800
Garmin's top-of-the-line cycling GPS trainer lets you race against previous times while monitoring your heart rate, cadence, speed, and much more on the customized screen. The elevation function is especially cool: it allows you to see your current altitude as well as run analytics on previous ascents and descents. Once you get home, simply sync the Edge 800 with your computer and post your routes on Facebook via Garmin Connect. ($450; buy.garmin.com)

2 | miCoach Pacer
Adidas takes on Nike+ with a smart system that connects a heart-rate monitor, a stride sensor (it clips to your shoe), and a pacer to help you break through your fitness plateaus with personalized, interactive workouts. ($140; micoach.com)

3 | Nike+ SportWatch GPS
A timepiece-cum-trainer, Nike's newest sport watch has a built-in TomTom GPS that works with a stride sensor to provide detailed running

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By Paul John Scott, Details magazine

Recent research proves that it's carbohydrates-not fat-that make food fattening. How do your dietary staples rate?

Drinks
While food manufacturers like to obscure the amount of carbs (read: sugar) by listing it per serving (Vitaminwater for instance, has 2.5 servings), most people consume these drinks by the container. Here's a look at the actual amount of carbs some of these products contain per bottle:

• Budweiser (11 g)
• Vitaminwater (32.5 g)
• Gatorade (34 g)
• Coca-Cola (39 g)
• Odwalla Superfood (57 g)
• Starbucks venti White Chocolate Mocha (79 g)

Snacks
The closer you look, the clearer it becomes that most common snack foods are simply fattening carb clusters. Here's how a few of these mainstays stack up (per 100 grams):

• Burger King French fries (42 g)
• Pringles Original (54 g)
• Saltines (73 g)
• pretzels (79 g)
• rice cakes (80 g)

Desserts
Some guys sneak their ice cream a spoonful at a time while Read More »from How Fattening Is Your Diet?

by Amy Prince, DETAILS Magazine

Whatever your relationship status, this list of love tokens has you covered.

When Brad Pitt unveiled a clean-shaven face earlier last week, he was only the latest in a long line of stars who have corrected seriously unflattering hair mistakes. Here, 11 guys who have clipped their way to greatness.

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Ashley Albert, Genevieve Goings, and Sonia de Los Santos make dads happy to watch with the kids.

By Jeff Gordinier for Details

For the past week or so, the national commentariat has been bouncing on a trampoline of nostalgic glee in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street. And we're cool with that. Look back at shows like Sesame Street, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and Captain Kangaroo, and it's easy to find yourself longing for a lost era when children's television was innocent, gentle, untainted by commercialism, and soothingly slow.

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Then again, if you happen to be a young dad, you might just have a sneaking suspicion that things are better now. Sure, the Wiggles make you want to explore the innards of your flat-screen with jackhammer and blowtorch, but there's a reason-several, in fact-why you often find yourself bathrobed on the couch, selflessly putting in hours of high-quality hang-time with the offspring while your

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You two were careful, but somehow she got pregnant. It happens. Or not... Getting tricked into fatherhood by a woman hell-bent on getting pregnant is much more common than you think.

By Ian Daly for DETAILS

Imagine for a moment this perfectly plausible scenario: You've had a steady girlfriend for a year or so and everything's going great. You still hold hands at the movies. Friends tell you you're good together. You're both around 30 years old and making plenty of money, maybe living together, but you're nowhere near considering fatherhood. And though you occasionally get the feeling that her biological clock is set far ahead of yours, she tells you she's "safe," so you don't worry. Why would you? It's not as if you'd just picked her up on Dollar Margarita Night at Senor Frog's. But one morning she tells you something has gone wrong. Unlikely as it sounds, she's pregnant-and she wants to keep it. What she doesn't tell you, though, is this: She wasn't being safe all along. She

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What's so funny about overweight people getting hit in the groin with footballs? Everything.

By Simon Dumenco for Details

In the United States of America, home of the best-fed people on earth, it's finally come to this: We have developed an insatiable appetite not only for mammoth cupcakes but for fatness itself. Turn on the TV and it's everywhere. On NBC's pioneering The Biggest Loser, where the morbidly obese try to sweat their way into smaller jeans. On VH1's Celebrity Fit Club, with its flotilla of jump-roping chubsters. On Oxygen's Dance Your Ass Off, in which the shaking of Brobdingnagian booties rivals the cataclysmic movement of tectonic plates. And, most recently and tantalizingly, on Fox's More to Love, in which a bevy of lard-assed ladies compete for the meaty paw of a sweet, man-boobed, 300-pound-plus subcontractor from California.

There is, yes, so much to love-and so much to feel conflicted about. It used to be that fattertainment-media content that invites gratuitous

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All fast foods are not created equal. Among the sad-sack burgers and other vile mass-produced foodstuffs a few true culinary gems stand out-lauded by gourmet chefs even as they satisfy the simple cravings of on-the-move diners. These winning entrées-yes, they deserve the title-sides, desserts, and drinks can all be found at establishments with at least five locations and one drive-thru (naturally), yet they're anything but homogeneous, showcasing a range of distinct regional flavors. Consider this your Michelin Guide to the food you can eat while changing lanes.

By JJ Goode

Photograph by Michael Schmelling

Head over to details.com for the full list: The 25 most fulfilling things to order at the drive-thru.

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