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...Morale is low - not because the Army is hard, but because it is so slow. Sergeants here bristle but rarely bite; privates a few weeks ahead of you are generous with their time, anecdotes and advice. But they are as angry as we are. Those on active duty want to get where?they are going after boot camp, Brazil or Germany or wherever. Reserves feel a sharper pain, though; two weeks down the drain like this seems time truly wasted, coming directly out of their civilian lives...
...Getting as comfortable as possible in the plastic chair, Putnam reduces his theory to a sound bite: "Because of TV and two career families and sprawl and so on," he says, "we no longer feel comfortable bowling in leagues...
...wheezing Party of Five captures both in luminous visuals--the pilot looks as if it cost as much as a full season of That '70s Show. But the writing seems decidedly more cut-rate. Hewitt's Sarah Merrin heads east to find her biological father and take a bite out of the Big Apple, dropping Holly Golightly-isms like, "Give me one good reason why I should not spend the night dancing!" This star vehicle, thus far, is a shiny subway to nowhere...
...Chris: These are pretty big. [Gestures to the Super Big Bite, $1.63 at 7-11, $3 at Fenway...
Stephen Jay Gould's article on smart genes [THE I.Q. GENE?, Sept. 13] was informative and clarifying, but when did he make the memory association between "a bee's buzz and the pain of its bite"? Or are American bees just that bit further up the dental evolutionary scale than our local species? AMANDA STILTZ Cardiff, Wales...