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...Polynesian ex-commando who spent an hour telling me of his life as a mercenary in a succession of South Pacific island nations--stories that often ended with his punching, stabbing or shooting somebody. When the Fokker began its steep descent, he began whimpering to Jesus and grabbing my forearm so tight, I felt my palm go cold from lack of circulation...
...hold his hands to the blood- and urine-stained mattress as a nurse in flip-flops sticks him repeatedly with a needle, trying to transfuse a unit of expired blood.A fly lands on his eyeball and he doesn’t blink. The intravenous line slips out of his forearm and sprays blood all over the floor. The nurse throws her hands up in the air, chucks the unit of blood in the trash, and bends down to wipe up the mess with a dirty wad of cotton. Yet he doesn’t cry; the room echoes with labored...
...Some studies have found bone loss is slower in those who engage in such weight-bearing physical activities as running and walking. In one survey, women ages 35 to 65 who took a 50-minute aerobics class three times a week lost only 2.5% of the density in their forearm bones, compared with 9.5% for women who did not exercise. "Osteoporosis is a total life-style problem," emphasizes Heaney. "You can't cure a bad life-style with a pill, and it's a terrible strategic mistake to encourage people to think you can. If I'm sitting...
...table, she stands behind him touching the back of his shoulders. Rajapatirana also has his mom lightly touching his shoulders or waist as he types. But many others who rely on FC require a lot more hand-holding. Some are physically supported by their facilitator at the forearm or shoulder; some are held at the wrist...
Roth is too well attuned a writer to win this argument. His protagonist's memories of his boyhood are crystalline: "He ran home barefoot and wet and salty, remembering the mightiness of that immense sea boiling in his own two ears and licking his forearm to taste his skin fresh from the ocean and baked by the sun." And Roth conjures an understated, haunting set piece in which the man visits the cemetery and chats with the affable worker who will soon dig his grave. These are glimpses of the Everyman whose story would have been more powerful had Roth...