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...midday, I know the proper way to clean up a blood spill. (With bleach.) I know the remedies for both conscious and unconscious choking, and how to self-administer the Heimlich maneuver (by leaning over the back of a chair). I know how to apply CPR. After a morning of vivid reminders of my mortality, the lunch break becomes an exercise in dread. For example, do I want to spend what may be the final hour of my life munching a Cobb salad and reading a book by Al Franken? I look down at my lunch and think...
...rest of the house got pretty good marks. The only mold was in the air-conditioning coils, which we'll get cleaned. We shouldn't store chlorine bleach and ammonia-based cleaners together in the upstairs bathroom. If combined they can produce highly toxic chlorine gas. The paint-storage room would be better off vented out of the house. Fumes from the garage are not an issue because our garage is freestanding. Still, Brennan urges us to get a carbon-monoxide detector...
...times have changed. In part it's simply a matter of the available labor pool. In these booming times, the Navy can't recruit enough men for its 315 ships. The other driving force has been the Navy's resolve to bleach the stain of the 1991 Tailhook Association convention, at which naval aviators sexually assaulted 83 women and then tried to cover it up. For years the Navy has been fighting the perception that women are not welcome in its ranks...
...donations of leashes, collars, kitty litter, and muzzles? Or maybe we can attribute it to the call of a regional newspaper that decided to publish a list of what victims displaced from their homes most urgently needed: nonperishable food, cleaning supplies, shovels--and the list goes on. Sure, bleach and other cleaners might count as luxuries, but after all we are talking about the United States here--not some remote African country with people living on less than a dollar...
...with the communers, even with the strict rules enunciated by Sal (Tilda Swinton), the camp's queen bee. Still, he feels isolated. A fabulous resort is no fun if a fellow isn't getting laid. As he says, "Desire is desire wherever you go. The sun will not bleach it, nor the tide wash it away...