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Pasquale has always completed all assigned readings for classes and spends inordinate amounts of time on composing papers. He says the lowest grade he has received on a paper is an A-. For that examination of the 1842 Corn Law for History 1443: "Capitalist Culture in Britain 1750-1914," he says he spent 40 hours on the research alone...
...disintegrated long ago. Now she's on display in a cooler in Washington, courtesy of the National Geographic Society. It helped pay for the expedition that found her, high up in the Peruvian Andes. The body screamed "human sacrifice" from the start. Earthen tomb. Religious offerings--statuettes, coca leaves, corn. Typical sacrifice MO for the Inca, which is what she was. The location fits too: a volcano called Ampato. The Inca worshipped it as a god. Funny thing is, it was Ampato's eruption in 1995 that melted the glacier. Almost as if the god wanted to come clean about...
...marital conversation conducted across a chasm. Dodge, a foghorn-voiced geezer (a hilarious James Gammon), sits nearly immobile on a couch, exchanging shouts with his wife (Lois Smith), who spends most of the first act offstage. One grown son (Terry Kinney) shuffles in and out with armfuls of corn; another (Leo Burmester) stomps around on a false leg and terrorizes his father by snipping his hair while he sleeps. "You think just because people propagate, they have to love their offspring?" asks Dodge. Not this crew, for sure...
...CORN FARMERS They grow the raw material for gasohol, the wacky '70s fad suddenly a little less wacky...
Until scientists figure out what's going on, it probably makes sense to eat as much natural vitamin E as the healthiest women in the study did: 10 international units daily, the amount found in three tablespoons of corn oil. If nothing else, it's a lot cheaper than buying vitamin pills...