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...states of Europe should have built a proto-alliance (of the willing) to hunt out the Ottomans when they were still just Balkan colonists. That’s ridiculous for two reasons: one, battling people who don’t pose a threat is a great way to over-expend resources. Should Europe also have allied to crush the Magyars, or the medieval Bulgarians, just in case? Moreover to suggest a parallel between the expanding Ottoman Empire and modern “Islamic radicalism” is the sort of conflation that allows Americans to excise...
...terrible burden is finally lifted, along with a large round trophy. MARIA SHARAPOVA, a blond, Russian-born tennis prodigy with a modeling contract, has had to expend much valuable energy denying that she's the new Anna Kournikova, an adjectivally similar countrywoman who won hearts but no titles. "Anna isn't in the picture anymore," Sharapova recently announced. "It's Maria time now." True and true. With Kournikova absent and fighting retirement, the less flamboyant, more focused Sharapova, 17, trounced Serena Williams, 6-1, 6-4, Saturday to become Wimbledon's third youngest women's champion ever and the first...
...average American consumes about 1 million calories a year--and, under normal circumstances, burns almost exactly that amount. The body achieves that balance by automatically increasing or decreasing the efficiency with which it performs various tasks, thus consuming fewer or more calories. (Most of the calories we expend are used to breathe, maintain body temperature, keep the brain chugging along, etc. Depending on how much you move, physical activity typically accounts for 15% to 30% of the total.) If you pack on a couple of pounds over the course of the year, your body's error rate is still less...
...that game, Yadav took command. With both players fatigued, Yadav controlled the middle of the court and forced Fong to expend energy chasing down balls in the corners. Fong, visibly exhausted, often bent over or leaned against the back wall between points in order to catch his breath. Meanwhile, Yadav just got stronger as he closed in on victory, eventually taking the match with an impressive 9-0 win in the fifth game...
Length of the waiting list of “The Line,” an event where 60 people simultaneously get to fire their machine guns into a field littered with cars and boats, and during which shooters routinely expend $10,000 in ammunition: 5,256,000 Minutes