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...FRONTISPIECE ofSelf Helpis adorned with, among other bizarre items, a quote from Sex Lives of Animals Without Backbones which provides a metaphor for relationships that's as apt (and unromantic) as they come. The excerpted passage notes that certain invertebrates "lose an arm while mating," and is immediately followed by a ghoulish bit of advice from The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette: "If you start to shake hands with someone who has lost an arm, shake his other hand...
...which included his first state visit to Washington since he took office in December 1983. For the White House, welcoming the Argentine President was a chance to salute the hemisphere's democratic transformation, of which Alfonsin, whose election ended nearly eight years of often brutal military dictatorship, is an apt illustration. It was also an opportunity to salve wounds left by U.S. support for Argentina's enemy, Britain, during the 1982 war over the Falkland Islands, which the Argentines call Las Malvinas...
Among their leaves, he remained fixated on images of "natural" authority. Rousseau was less of a sweet fabulist than one is apt to suppose. His hero was Leo, king of the beasts, with vassals arranged in order of domination in their palm court. Some emblems of ferocity gave him trouble. The hero of The Hungry Lion, 1905, has a crescent of human dentures, and might be biting into a watermelon; the unhappy antelope, because of Rousseau's difficulty in drawing its head twisted at such an angle, is duckbilled; the eagle and owl, with their strips of meat, look stuffed...
...minority of the fields are unionized. On the non-union farms, firings over union activity and discrimination and bad-faith bargaining are the rule, not the exception. As with the disputes over salary, all these cases take years in court: as the saying goes, and it was never more apt, justice delayed is justice denied...
...even 5 lbs.," he says--can be dangerous, particularly to people already at risk for hypertension and diabetes. Oddly enough, the distribution of fat on the body seems to influence health. Studies have shown that people who carry their excess fat as a potbelly or "spare tire" are more apt to suffer from heart disease, stroke and diabetes than those who carry the same amount of flab around their hips and thighs. Why this is so remains a mystery...