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...wherever you sit at the national smorgasbord, whether you dine off Styrofoam or Limoges, there's the same relentless struggle against the encroachments of billowing flesh. Affluent people have better weapons, of ) course -- StairMasters and NordicTracks -- but even they are sometimes forced to fly first class just to find seats that will accommodate their thighs...
...assassination attempt by Mehmet Ali Agca. John Paul has written an apostolic letter on the supernatural value of human suffering in which he teaches, "Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ." Though he does not mortify his flesh with a hair shirt -- as Paul VI sometimes did -- he clearly sees his own physical ailments in this light...
...arrival of the real-life thriller The Hot Zone on the best-seller list, plus outbreaks of cholera, tuberculosis, Legionnaire's disease, hantavirus, plague and -- yes -- the flesh-eating version of streptococcus bacteria, have driven home a frightening truth: the war against infectious diseases is nowhere near over. In fact, because of drug-resistant bacteria and newly emerging viruses, medical science actually seems to be losing ground...
...question is the state, and location, of the president's flesh. One week after Harvard announced Rudenstine's medical leave, there has been no confirmation from the president that he is, in fact, at home. Repeated phone calls to Rudenstine's immediately family have gone unreturned...
...turkeys had graced the emblem of our great seals instead of eagles, we might not enjoy their succulent flesh every year in November. We don't exactly feast on bald eagles, who weren't always an endangered species, on any special day. But maybe bald eagles taste really good, and we just don't know. Here at Dartboard, we're pretty darn sure they taste like chicken...