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...always knows what's going on inside her characters. She doesn't turn on the starkest emotions but finds them within her. When she gets the news of her brother's disappearance in My Son Jack, her devastation is both extravagant and acute; too much seems exactly the right amount. Her Nina in The Seagull wore emotions so raw that Mulligan was in a sluice of tears for nearly the entire evening...
...cycling, unlike in other sports, you make only incremental gains each year you train. It takes a special kind of discipline to continue training once you encounter difficulties, reach a plateau in your improvement, or when the gain you make is much smaller than the amount of work you put into...
Updike indicated in his will that he wanted the remainder of his archive to go to Harvard, though the University had to pay an undisclosed amount of money to Updike’s literary trust to complete the acquisition...
...school nutrition standards this year, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 63% of schools have stopped selling sugary soft drinks. Yet despite these efforts, most students still pile unhealthy foods onto their lunch trays. Currently, 80% of schools serve lunches with more than the recommended amount of saturated fat; 42% don't offer daily fresh fruits and vegetables. No matter how you measure it, there's very little nutrition in a Tater...
...case, all of the ligaments that hold the skull on top of C1 were "completely torn" and there were small fractures to C1 itself. "It is very unusual today to have three healthy young people die in a car crash," says Bhatia, 36. "They were hit with an amazing amount of force." Regarding Wilhite's internal decapitation, Bhatia says, "Think about the weekly collisions in the National Football League and that neck injuries are relatively rare. That tells you how hard they were hit. I have never seen a car so destroyed." What saved Wilhite, says Bhatia, is the fact...