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Working only a few hours a week to start. I had plenty of time left over to sun-bathe. Luckily, I could get a 10-per-cent employee's discount on my Super-Saver cocoa butter lotion. Not bad, I thought, until I realized that after taxes my pay would total less than $100 a week. Even with cheap cocoa butter lotion, you can't go very far on that...
...smoking reported last week that low-yield brands reduce the risk of developing lung cancer only slightly, and heart disease, emphysema and bronchitis not at all. There is also a new worry. To enhance the cigarettes' weaker flavor, manufacturers have been using additives, some of which, like cocoa, turn into cancer-causing substances when burned. More bad news was contained in the British Medical Journal. A 14-year study of 265,000 Japanese men and women concluded that a husband who smoked 20 cigarettes a day doubled a nonsmoking wife's chance of dying of lung cancer...
When next a pregnant woman reaches for a cup of that old pick-me-up, she should be urged to put it down. So advised the Food and Drug Administration last week. For coffee-like tea, cola drinks, chocolate and cocoa, and some drugs-contains caffeine, and, says the FDA, that substance may be linked to birth defects...
Still angry about the hot cocoa, I returned to my seat, which was in a good spot just behind the quarterback on the second base foul line. Just as I sat down, everyone stood to watch Bob Avenelli, the Bears' quarterback, throw a long pass, which they call a missile, to one of the left-fielders, who crossed the finish line for a home run. But before they could even put the five points on the scorecard, the umpire blew a whistle and called a penalty stroke because one of the Bears' infielders had done an illegal block, what they...
Despite the heat and the lack of hot cocoa, most people at the Bears-Orioles game that steamy August night had a good time. Even I enjoyed a few of the plays. But the point is, there are other ways to have fun in the summer, and football should be played when it's natural to play it. The next thing you know, they'll be playing hockey...