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...learn on ensuing holes, Sawat knows what clubs to select, measures distances like a surveyor and reads the contours of greens as if they're her personal rice paddy. While my rivals drive heroically only to narrowly miss putts, I revel in rough and hunker in bunkers?and then drain epic putts thanks to my guru Sawat...
Unlike other European countries, England does not protect against the exports of its art work, leading some to speculate that there is a North American drain of English art, he said...
Besides making sufferers miserable, colds are also more of a drain on the economy than most of us realize. A study from the University of Michigan, published in last week's Archives of Internal Medicine, estimates that colds cost the U.S. $40 billion a year--more than the tally for osteoporosis or congestive heart failure. "If anything, that number is probably on the low side," says Dr. Mark Fendrick, who led the study. He notes that earlier estimates, which had put the cold burden at $5 billion to $10 billion, did not account for, among other things, the fact that...
...bite someone. He even calmed fears that may seem silly but to a child are real and consuming--like being afraid to take a bath because you might be sucked down the pipes. Mister Rogers gently sang, "You can never go down/Can never go down/Can never go down the drain...
...more upset than your child." But that should surprise no one. Kids, after all, will have hundreds of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood reruns to help them through their spooky moments. But who is out there today, in any neighborhood, to reassure grownups that we can never go down the drain...