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...something. I had really thought that when I lost Milt I would fall apart. But I didn't. I realized that I could be alone. I now took care of me. I'd eat what I wanted to eat. I'd buy veal chops, which Milt wasn't fond of. I'd sleep when I wanted to sleep. I had always put others ahead ofme; I never put myself first. This was now a different attitude for me. I guess you find things inyourself that you never knew existed...
...Grandma Factor" - older people, who might end up losing out from enlargement themselves, "support entry because they see it will be good for their children and grandchildren." The 80,000 pages of laws and regulations attached to the E.U.'s admission ticket are sweeping away a lot of fond familiar ways. In August, for example, Czechs had to give up their tradition of choosing unwrapped donuts and other pastries with their hands, because of E.U. health regulations. There were pungent protests. Individually these sorts of changes don't amount to much, but collectively they make people nervous that their national...
...photographs themselves, this is reflected in a consummate lack of all human presence in all but a few of the images. Ristelhueber instead chooses to focus on the vestiges of conflict--the remnants of troop movements, of battles, of actions taken and not being taken. She is particular fond, for example, of images of rusty cans and shells in the middle of a huge desert . (One is reminded often, in perusing the exhibit, of P.B. Shelley's timeless words from Ozymandias: "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay/Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch far away...
...Though the particulars of HPV remain something of a medical mystery, we have learned at least one frightening thing about the disease: HPV is spread through skin-to-skin contact of genitals and their surrounding areas, so condoms do not always protect against it. Which means, as Sulak is fond of saying, there is no such thing as safe...
...recounted fond memories of his father’s good nature...