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...According to the scientist who made the catalogue, the figures were comprehensible only to about 250 people in the world. Still, for those baffled by the scientific thoughts of the late Albeit Einstein, there were bits of less technical information to be gleaned: the author of E=m 2 ate eggs and drank tomato juice (he spilled some on his work) and bequeathed to history an unexplained (and here freely translated) bit of verse: I shan't be absent, little snookie, Though I am not a sugar cookie; What life has brought you up to now May sweeten...
...State Department even sent agents to check out the food before the Chinese ate it." Jane A. Draper, administrative assistant in computing technology, said yesterday. Draper helped to arrange the schedule for yesterday's visit...
Tyrell always worked the hardest. In addition to faithfully fulfilling the five-month annual practice regimen, he lifted weights in the off-season, ate wheat germ, and jogged several miles...
...hunting, the eagle abducted the fox's cubs to feed to her hungry eaglets. The fox was unable to take revenge until a burning entrail, which the eagle had brought home from a sacrificial altar, set her nest on fire. As the eaglets fell to the ground, the fox ate them...
Eventually, history judges a country as much by its cuisine as by its politics. As Lin Yutang rhetorically inquired: "What is patriotism but the love of the good things we ate in our childhood...