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...Capa's sense--in the room, on the scene, there--when the President of the United States of America finally shakes off the psychological grip of his handlers and his security wedge and his tireless self-awareness and makes some gesture or expression that is not in the fat playbook of official gestures and expressions. At which point the scrupulously prepared, emotionally intrepid photographer--we're talking here about Walker--gets the pleasure of hearing the shutter click like a purse being closed with a pearl inside...
...nurses for up to 16 years, researchers found that women who consumed 5 oz. of nuts each week (about five handfuls) were 30% less likely to develop diabetes than women who rarely touched them. Five tablespoons of peanut butter reduced the risk 20%. What's the secret? It's fat--but the good kind. Nuts contain polyunsaturated fats that researchers suspect may help keep blood-sugar levels stable. The high levels of fiber and magnesium in nuts may have a similar effect. "Just about everything in nuts is healthy," says Frank Hu, the study's leader and a nutrition professor...
...Cahill - a.k.a. the General - had the posthumous privilege of being portrayed by Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey in the thinly fictionalized Ordinary Decent Criminal, released in 2000. (Two years earlier, Brendan Gleeson played the title role in The General.) The real-life Cahill was Ireland's most colorful crook. Fat and balding, he had a passion for pigeons, Harley-Davidson motorbikes and two Dublin sisters by whom he fathered nine children. Cahill's gang arrived in Russborough House one night in May 1986; they cut a small pane of glass out of a French window, and entered the house...
...want seven feet of snow so I can jump out of my big fat window on the second floor of DeWolfe and land in a pile of snow,” said Adrian D. Maldonado...
...last semester and got naked for Adams House Pool Theater crowds. When FM stopped by his room on the 10th floor of Leverett G Tower, he wasn’t dressed, but insisted that we come on in, revealing a firm back, broad shoulders and 0 percent body fat...