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Thomas J. Ridge '67 has been a fish out of water for most of his life...
...Harvard was the best place to work. That's what doesn't come through," Atkinson says. "You never work past nine, there's a fixed wage. And Harvard's benefits are way better than Atlantic Fish Company or Border Cafe...
...cavity was only detected in the summer after my first year in college. That was the year that I maxed out on Cokes at breakfast. It was also during that first year that my father discovered Costco, in a big way. He sent me two-pound cartons of Swedish fish monthly, and though I was initially possessive with the gummies, soon my entire suite was chewing on the darling little minnows--breakfast, lunch and dinner. I should have seen the cavity coming, as the enamel on my back molars had clearly worn thin: I could no longer deal with food...
...loud. When my grandfather was a very old man, he told me, apropos of nothing, about visiting the hospital when I was born: "I came home and told my wife, 'The baby is awful looking.' She said, 'He'll be o.k.' I said, 'No, he looks like a fish. It's a shame. Such nice people.'" At first, I thought "such nice people" was an oddly detached way of referring to his daughter and son-in-law, but then I realized that after getting that first traumatic glimpse of me, he must have felt the need to distance himself from...
...Helped by their fish-based diet, the Japanese top the list, living an average of 74 years of healthy life (concerned that the chronically bedridden were skewing the curve, the WHO switched from the straight life-expectancy indicator this year). Coming up fast are the Australians, at 73.2, followed by France, Sweden, Spain and Italy. The U.S. notched an even 70. At the bottom? Sierra Leone, at 26 healthy years per person. In fact, the bottom 23 places on the 191-nation list were all countries from sub-Saharan Africa, ravaged by the AIDS epidemic, malaria and other tropical diseases...