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Mountstuart is too much of a hedonist to grieve for long, however. Soon his high spirits buoy him back to the surface, and he's off again: to New York City as an art dealer, to Africa as a professor of English, and beyond. Throughout, Boyd expertly keeps up the irregular tap-tap rhythms of diary writing--often the gaps in Mountstuart's chronicle, when he is too depressed or having too much fun to write, are as eloquent as the words themselves--and Boyd has a biographer's eye for arranging the multitudinous ironies and serendipitous connections that...
Nationally, 20% of schools sell branded foods, and nearly all senior high schools operate vending machines. Beyond simply subsidizing the government meals, those dollars buoy cash-strapped schools in other ways, funding field trips and buying sports equipment. They also lure kids away from healthier options. In one study by the Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine, students in schools with snack foods consumed 50% less fruit, juice and vegetables...
...government, which, along with the Yokosuka government, formally complained to the U.S. Navy twice in August. Extra-curricular shore leave activities weren't the only reason for Hejl's dismissal. The 41-year-old Kitty Hawk recently failed an engineering assessment and earlier this year in Singapore struck a buoy while Hejl was at the helm. The dismissal of a carrier captain is rare, but with U.S. forces fighting the war on terrorism, the margin of error for those in charge has shrunk...
Farguell, 46, general manager of Futbol Club Barcelona, has made a three-year pact with the National Football League to help buoy the popularity of U.S. football in Europe and European soccer in the U.S. His soccer team will play exhibition games in NFL stadiums, and the Barcelona Dragons, part of NFL Europe, will join F.C. Barcelona's 16-team empire...
...your old Toscanini album--Claudio Abbado's conducting is sometimes a bit fussy--but Terfel is as fine a Falstaff as has ever lived, and Thomas Hampson is splendid as Ford, the hypersuspicious husband whom Sir John longs to cuckold. If current events are weighing you down, let Verdi buoy you back up. Where there are laughs, there is hope...