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...expectant mothers and taped their heartbeats. When the taped heartbeat was played back to 300 crying babies (20 of them preemies), 85% either went to sleep at once or stopped crying in a minute. The word spread quickly throughout Japan, and heartbeat cassettes and records are selling at a brisk rate. But Murooka warns that the recordings should be played for only the first two weeks of the infant's life; otherwise, the baby will sleep most of the time and lack the stimulation necessary for normal development...
Whitmore seems uncannily like Truman. As the curtain goes up, the first impulse is to gasp. Whitmore gets all the personal gestures right: the cock of the head, the grin as big as the American flag, and the brisk, soldierly movements of the arms and body. He goes on to embody the man's character and personality...
...that point, Harvard had a 13-3 lead, Yale had paraded four pitchers to the mound and it was getting cold and dark in a brisk wind blowing across Soldiers' Field...
...Romagnoli dishes - hot Swiss chard with olive oil, spareribs and sausages mired in thick sauce - are the sort of thing only an Italian mama could love. But these are piffling objections. This is not the haute cuisine of Julia Child but Italian family fare, presented with a brisk, nothing-to-it insouciance guaranteed to dispel even a beginning cook's fear of frying...
...With brisk dispatch, Portugal's leftist-dominated Revolutionary Council moved last week to consolidate its powers. In the aftermath of the previous week's right-wing coup attempt, the all-military 24-member council appeared on television for the first time before being sworn in at ceremonies in the president's office at Belém Palace...