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...cuttings, in which they set out the instruments of their own torture as carefully as a surgeon setting out her tools. The images in the book are unnervingly graphic, and Strong spares the reader as little as the victims spare themselves. In one chilling episode, a woman "sliced one [arm] open from wrist to elbow down to the muscle and burned herself so badly she required a skin graft...
...catcher, I work on squatting,long-distance running and lifting weights toimprove my foot-speed and quickness for lateralmovement to block balls in the dirt," he says."But the best way to get better at throwing outbaserunners is to just practice long tosses towork on arm strength...
This does not, of course, make the Lords a particularly energetic arm of the government. By one count, listening to Baroness Jay's speech last week, there were 76 bald heads, 16 mustaches, five walking sticks, three ear trumpets and one eye patch. The Earl of Longford, who carries an enormous magnifying glass, has been sitting in the Lords for 53 years...
Jack Aubrey is a fighting captain, brave and beefy, unsubtle except in naval matters and mathematics. Stephen Maturin, Irish and Catalan, sallow and scrawny, is a gifted surgeon who can whip off a shattered arm or leg and Bob's your uncle; he is also a naturalist, a rare linguist, and a shrewd intelligence agent for the British Admiralty...
...least one group in Washington has escaped the long arm of the LEWINSKY scandal: AmeriCorps. The national service program is a favorite of PRESIDENT CLINTON'S, and its supporters were worried that it might be a target for his congressional critics. But the four-year-old program has won over skeptics by emphasizing its grass-roots structure and its alliance with respected nonprofit organizations around the country. Members are selected by and work for such groups as Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Habitat for Humanity. AmeriCorps prevailed on a key Senate funding vote in July...