Word: detectives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officer and a gentleman." He enrolls in Naval Aviation Officer Candidate School, a form of organized flagellation that we are led to believe makes all other brands of basic training look like the vicar's lawn party. Underneath Zack's sullen exterior, the discerning eye can detect "the right stuff," as it were. The discerning eye in this case belongs to a black drill sergeant, played with malevolent high spirits by Louis Gossett Jr. Of course, Zack's spirit will first have to be broken, a process Gossett undertakes with relish. Then too Zack will have...
...passes unaltered out of the body. In the Cincinnati study, ten chronically obese patients were fed a diet much like their usual one for 20 days and, for another 20-day period, the same diet with SPE replacing about 540 daily calories of fat. Subjects were unable to detect any difference in the taste of the food, and did not attempt to compensate for lost calories by snacking more. They lost an average of 8 Ibs. during their time on the SPE diet, and, as a bonus, their serum cholesterol levels dropped 10%. How soon will SPE be on your...
...week, trying to do the quad ten or 15 times each session. Most of the attempts are recorded on video tape, and when the acrobats are through, they watch what they have just done. Like football players after the game, they study their movements so that they can detect split-second errors in timing. They actually have six practice quads on tape, but the only stunts that are officially counted are those before a paying audience...
Contracting the gravity of much of the evening's discussions, one humorous exchange left both participants and audience laughing Kennedy illustrating his point that a freeze is verifiable, said, "If our satellites can read the license plates on Soviet automobiles traveling at high speeds they can surely detect Soviet nuclear weapons...
...only one of many roads to a caesarean. In fact, it often seemed to Harrison that all roads led there. If the mother has not delivered within two hours after her cervix has dilated fully, protocol generally calls for a caesarean or forceps-assisted delivery. If highly sensitive monitors detect "fetal distress," a section is of ten done. If the mother has received so much local anesthetic that she cannot push, she may be cut. Three out of the first four deliveries at "Doctors" in which Harrison assisted were caesareans, though the hospital records show a 19% rate. Doctors like...