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...this to my little sister, Lindsey, thank God. At least I was spared that indignity. But he liked to tell a story about how, once Lindsey was born, I was so jealous that one day while he was on the phone in the other room, I moved down the couch - he could see me from where he stood - and tried to pee on top of Lindsey in her carrier. This story humiliated me every time he told it, to the pastor of our church, to our neighbor Mrs. Stead, who was a therapist and whose take on it he wanted...
...just regained consciousness after a 20-year nap. You fell asleep on the couch in 1982, and when you wake up, guess what's still on TV? The World Cup, of course. At first you pay little attention to the teams on the screen until you notice that the players wearing the royal blue jerseys are somehow different. This guy with a candy-apple red Mohawk darts into view, launching his lanky frame at the ball like a madman. In the center of the defense is a buzzing human gnat wearing the black-leather face mask of a professional wrestler...
...ages ago: A sound mind and a sound body," says Dr. Robert Butler, president of the International Longevity Center in New York City. At the University of Illinois, Dr. Arthur Kramer pitted aerobic exercise against weight lifting and toning in 124 very sedentary elderly men and women without dementia--"couch potatoes," as Kramer calls them. Half were assigned to an aerobic-fitness schedule consisting of progressively longer walks; the other half did strength and flexibility exercises...
...seem obvious, but a researcher at Indiana University of Pennsylvania thinks many TV viewers subconsciously register faces they see regularly--even those of actors on the small screen--as friends. Some subjects thought they had a rich social life but may only have been relating well with the couch...
...some point in my early teens, in the confusing years of adolescence, I stopped having friends over. Noah's condition dictated what we ate and when we slept and to a great degree how we lived. We never had fancy furniture because he chewed on the couch cushions and spit on the carpets. He would pull apart anything more complicated than a pencil. I was ashamed of our home and family. Already marked as different by virtue of being Asian American in a predominantly white community, I came to see Noah as an additional stigmatizing mark...