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...THEM EAT CAKE A comparison of desirable weight tables...
...first time in a decade, a World Series has been worthy enough to make people at least review the others for comparison. No souls should be lost over this one. "After 1980 I carried it around for about two years," recalled Royals Centerfielder Willie Wilson, who struck out twelve times in six games against Philadelphia, including the last swing off Tug McGraw. "Every time I woke up, Tug was striking me out. I was the one who lost the World Series. I felt so negative about myself that I hibernated. I didn't go outside in the day. I came...
...Yorker a few weeks ago, about the troubles of the first woman major-league baseball player. (Twenty-seven of his magazine pieces were collected in 1982's Happy to Be Here, which sold 210,000 copies.) But it is the Lake Wobegon imaginings that raise comparisons with the Midwestern bedfalls and dogaclysms of James Thurber and, further east, with the work of the late E.B. White, the essayist of The New Yorker who wrote so memorably of rural Maine. This is high company, but one additional comparison is beginning to be made. Keillor has sometimes performed in a white suit...
...comparison, World's Fair is downright guarded. Doctorow calls it a novel. But the book reads like a memoir, and is unmistakably based on the author's early boyhood in the Bronx. The account begins with a bed wetting in the middle of the Depression and ends on the eve of World War II with a nine-year-old Edgar Altschuler burying a cardboard time capsule containing a Tom Mix decoder badge, his school report on the life of F.D.R., a harmonica and a pair of Tootsy Toy lead rocket ships, "to show I had foreseen the future...
Prentice said evidence suggests that embryonic stem cells may not be as useful as initially thought, while adult stem cells are showing capabilities beyond previous expectations. He also cited the success of adult stem cell research in comparison with embryonic stem cell research...