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HISTORY J.F.K. assassination theorists churn up a murky world view...
...long road to conception actually begins seven months before a woman is born, when microscopic eggs start to form in the buds that will become her ovaries. Unlike the testicles of a man, which continuously churn out sperm at the prodigious rate of 1,000 per sec. (30 billion a year), the ovaries never produce any new eggs. The eggs a woman is born with -- usually about 2 million -- are all she will ever have. By puberty, normal degeneration will have reduced that number to about 400,000. When the woman exhausts the supply, her ovaries will virtually shut down...
...THINK IT'S WORTHWHILE to digress here to point out that Harvard produces some of the finest brownnosers this side of the president. It's understandable, of course. We all had to find a way to get our high school counselors to churn out our recommendations. It's just that some students have really refined their expertise at Harvard. (If you don't know whether you qualify, count up the people you know, and count how many of them are editors/directors/producers/presidents/chairs. More than half, and you're in the big leagues...
...both of which are considered inferior to the U.S.'s M1A1. In any case, the allies will not rely on tank-to-tank combat but will call in air strikes by A-10 Thunderbolts and missile-launching helicopters. In the desert there is no cover for armored vehicles, which churn up a dust cloud behind them wherever they go. "They move, we see 'em," says an A-10 pilot in Saudi Arabia...
...listmakers wed advanced computer technology to an ever expanding data base to churn out highly specialized rolls of potential customers. They aim to know not only where you are but also who and what you are. By cross-indexing lists obtained from credit agencies, political parties, mail-order companies and other organizations, a direct-mail specialist can merge and compare the data to identify the groups you belong to, the car you drive, the party you vote for, the amount you paid for your house. All this helps direct marketers identify the goods, services and causes that might...