Word: chalks
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...axing some unsuspecting soul the day before graduation, were ever carried out, and our PT sluggards never lacked for second chances (or third or fourth or fifth ones) to clear the bar. Oh, the toothlessness of it all! I'd heard drill sergeants, nostalgic for the hard old days, chalk it up alternately to gender-combined training, those end-of-cycle customer-satisfaction surveys, and of course the desperation of today's recruitment-challenged Army to keep as many butts in the seats as possible...
...Chalk it up as yet another evil of stereotyping, but the term children's-book author does not summon to most minds the image of a 6-ft. 2-in., 240-lb. man with dreadlocks. Yet that description fits Christopher Paul Curtis, 46, and you can add "prizewinning" to the children's-book-author part. Last week Curtis' second book, Bud, Not Buddy (Delacorte; 245 pages; $15.95), garnered an impressive twofer: the John Newbery Medal, awarded annually by the American Library Association to the best American children's book; and the Coretta Scott King Author Award for excellence...
...Cambridge resident reported to the CPD that while her son was at Magazine Street and Chalk Street at 6:30 p.m., his friend threw a snowball that struck a passing motor vehicle. The vehicle's driver then got out and, swearing, grabbed and pushed the woman's son. The mother came to her son's defense, and a verbal altercation with the driver ensued. The driver threatened her before leaving...
...Chalk another one up to the Internet. Anyone with a computer and a novel can become a published author, bypassing the conventional North American publishing industry. More and more authors are taking the electronic route. California e-publisher iUniverse.com expects to publish 15,000 to 25,000 new works in 2000, and competitor Fatbrain says 5,500 authors have signed on in just four months...
VITAMIN POWER Chalk up another victory for vitamin C. Researchers now think the versatile vitamin may help lower moderately elevated blood pressure. A small but well-controlled trial found that patients who take 500 mg of vitamin C daily for a month have a 9% drop in both systolic (upper) and diastolic (lower) readings. As for folks with normal blood pressure, the supplements don't alter a thing...