Word: digestibility
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There's wisdom in the Reader's Digest bromide that laughter is the best medicine; we could name two recent invalids whose hearts were lifted by David Sedaris' impression of Billie Holiday singing the Oscar Mayer jingle on NPR. But waking old folks at midnight and making loud mischief seem like a manic camp counselor's idea of fun: indoctrination by comedy. The supporting characters, from the hospital dean (Harve Presnell) to Patch's girlfriend (Monica Potter), are similarly bludgeoned. They begin as skeptics and end, their wills crushed, as dewy believers...
Unexplained physical phenomena could also be the culprits. Some say it takes more energy to chew and digest celery than one gets from eating it; what if one ingredient had negative caloric value? A celery stick topped with a mound of lard would have more calories from fat than it would total calories, and a ratio above 100 percent would be the natural result. Therefore, one should seek out foods with higher calories-from-fat ratios, since they are more likely to be made with these calorie-reducing ingredients...
...carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates, so it seems logical that there could be both simple fats and complex fats, and the latter would take the form a + bi, where i is the square root of negative one. Clearly, the imaginary component would throw off the calculations, although the body could digest it merely by reading the diet book Think Yourself Thin...
...trip in April] left a great impression that I am still trying to digest," said Eckert, who is also director of the Korea Institute at Harvard...
...provide an environment where they can succeed." Some, though, aren't so sure whether Green is enjoying a little short-term luck juggling a ticking time bomb. "Randy Moss has shown what everybody thought. He is an extremely talented player," Miami Dolphins coach Jimmy Johnson wrote recently in Dolphin Digest. "Whether or not he's going to be playing in this league three years from now, time will tell...