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...muscles she didn't know she had. She wasn't fit, at least not in a way elite athletes understand the term. Edwin had her pounding out 300-meter sprints with cruelly short rests in between. In self-defense, her body began to grow. A high-protein, high-carbohydrate diet combined with hard training stacked 11 kg of muscle onto a body that had weighed just 45 kg. "Now I am like a sprinter," she says proudly. And she is, with long, sinewy legs flowing into the dasher's signature body part: a powerful, jutting behind. "I will always...
...Over the years since, he's endured a ruptured appendix; breathing problems; gangrenous feet, which led to the amputation of his left foot in 1998; and seizures too numerous to count. Still, he's been a model patient, giving himself daily insulin shots since he was 10, watching his diet and constantly monitoring his blood sugar. But the severity of his disease continued to make him prone to seizures and life-threatening infections. He never finished his senior year of high school because of health complications, and failing eyesight forced him to stop working at McDonald's after...
Macintoshes around campus have gone on a diet...
More to the point, Ratgate shows what happens to the nervous systems of certain news organizations when they go into withdrawal, deprived of the usual diet of sensational junk to which their bodies have become habituated. What do you do if you're not mainlining 24-hour-a-day Diana or Columbine, or some such? Well, you cast a fevered eye about for something that will do until the real thing comes along again...
...ethos of domestic civility was the overwhelming norm. But I was also exposed to, and invigorated by, lots of what would now be called "transgressive art" - popular works that exceeded or demolished the official standards of probity. I attended horror movies, read vivid comic books, gorged on a diet of rock 'n roll. (And what was the most extreme TV genre of the decade? Wrestling.) Somehow I survived; miraculously, so did my parents, nice conservative Catholics who monitored but chose not to restrict a boy's outlaw tastes...