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...would like to report that my family travels well--that my three daughters do not bicker or pull hair or invent songs in which a sibling's name rhymes with smell-ah. And that our station wagon never veers from lane to lane as my husband peers over his shoulder to see whether the girls are cannibalizing one another in the back seat. But I would be lying. As summer approaches, I wonder whether we will survive another vacation...
...Uninhibited. Ah, those people who come on by the room at 1 a.m. with thoughts of hitting the town, who suggest Tuesday nights out for no good reason at all and snowball fights and walks in the rain. Who smile, start random conversations, send wacky e-mail messages. A special shout out to the zany dressers among you--so great to have something fun to look at in class or in the dining hall...
...fooled. In his let's-trade-one-offensive-stereotype-for-the-other defense of the video, Pop (presumably no relation to Iggy) claimed to Britain's NME that it wasn't an attack on gay men. "They weren't gay men, they were French men." Ah, so it was merely an attack on nationality. That makes it all better then...
Bellow is pleased by all the awards and recognition his work has received, but is not overly impressed with himself: "People used to kid me when I was a boy, and they would say, 'Ah, yes, you're going to have a Nobel Prize one day. You'll also be covered like a tree with bark.'" He refuses to romanticize his work: "I'm not a tortured writer. I had my days in my youth when I was a tortured writer. I decided that if torture is part of the job, I was going to quit...
...AH, SWEET GINSENG Used for centuries to fight off ills from fatigue to infirmity, the fleshy roots of the ginseng plant may have a role in treating diabetes. A preliminary study suggests diabetics who take a 3-g capsule of American ginseng--the only kind tested--before eating may be able to curtail the tendency of blood-sugar levels to soar after a meal. But before you stock up, better wait for more definitive studies...