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...backward way in which America deals with addiction: "[Jody] takes a long drag from his cigarette. 'Man, we need accessible treatment,' he says. 'We need to have treatment centers like we have 7-Elevens. They need to be all over the f___ing place, and they need to be affordable. Treatment works. Maybe not the first time, but it works if you do it right, if you give it the time it needs. For that you need to f___ing fund it. But we don't do that. We'd rather build jails and spend millions of dollars cleaning...
...unusual southpaw spin. Toni then encouraged, or perhaps failed to correct, the extreme grip Nadal uses, and the unusual way he swings his racquet. To this day, instead of using the forward momentum of his body to generate pace on his forehand as the training manuals recommend, Nadal falls backward from the net on his forehand, whipping his racquet behind his head instead of across his body. This movement results in looping shots that keep an opponent heaving balls back, often on the run, in a nightmare from which only an error provides release. Rallying with Nadal, says former...
...same, once the lights were back on. Obama, accompanied by his wife Michelle and Chicago friends Valerie Jarrett, Eric Whitaker and Martin Nesbitt, went to the Semper Fit Center for a morning workout. When Obama emerged at about 8:45 a.m., his Chicago White Sox cap worn backward, he briefly flashed the "shaka," a Hawaiian gesture that means everything from "hey there" to "hang loose...
...Christmas Eve the crew got busy. Settling Apollo 8 into orbit around the moon was a high-wire maneuver that involved turning the ship backward and firing its powerful service propulsion engine for precisely four and a half minutes - an eternity in a business in which barely a breath from a thruster is enough to set a ship spinning off course. The engine burn was designed to slow the spacecraft down just enough to ease it into a lunar orbit without losing so much altitude that it crashed into the moon instead. Orbital mechanics also demanded that the maneuver occur...
...More than a few northerners feel the South - supposedly the last bastion of red, patriotic values - is being hypocritical by bending over backward for Germans and Japanese at the expense of U.S. companies. To make the point, a retired GM engineer this month set up a website called boycottalabamanow.com. But southerners ask who the hypocrites really are. "When the textile industry went down in the South and we were accused of being behind the times, we didn't ask for a bailout - we just had to reinvent ourselves," says John Jeter, a South Carolina author whose family owns a small...