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...hear and read things that are intensely pornographic. Some are not going to like it. Just knowing that this is going on will drive lots of people, including ambitious public officials, to ``do something'' about it. Another problem with cybersex is that it can be addictive and chew up large amounts of money. And it tends to leave a lot of things lying around in your computer that you surely wouldn't leave out on the coffee table. I mean, face it, how many people brag about the collection of X-rated videos in the back of their bedroom closets...
...plot elements of American leadership. The complex maturity of the national success brings with it, paradoxically, a diminution and dispersal. Hierarchies flatten out. Presidents of the U.S. and lesser leaders will be ground down, as the great families were. Scandals, like boll weevils (or special prosecutors), will chew into their administrations. Anyone's 15 minutes of fame is liable to end in a poofing flameout of indignity...
...thoughtfulness punctuated by obscenity. Says producer Lawrence Bender, who for a miserly $8.2 million mounted this glossy production (including a '50s-style restaurant set so cool that some backers want to franchise it): "It's the kind of dialogue that's so organic, you can chew, eat and digest...
...researchers found very few bones from below the neck, and those they found were in fragments; chew marks on the bones show that the hominids' carcasses were ravaged by carnivores. That makes it hard for anyone to be sure what these creatures looked like and how they walked. The fossils suggest that at least some members of the ramidus clan were about 4 ft. tall, but that doesn't establish what the range in height was. In some African apes, males are considerably bigger than females, as they were in Lucy's species as well. Says White: "We do know...
...Something else for snuff fans to chew on: more than half of 91 National League baseball players who use some form of smokeless tobacco have precancerous lesions. The American Dental Association has called for a ban on chewing tobacco at major-league ball parks...