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...hope that professional sports do not reach the point they did in Pawtucket when the Minutemen even forgot to bring a game ball...
Marquez claims he prepared to write the book by collecting all the true anecdotes about South American dictators that he could find, though, he adds, he purposely forgot them all before he put words on paper. Nevertheless, his portrait of the general seems uncannily true to life as well as to art; and it is precisely the vividness of Garcia Marquez' vision that makes his book so frightening, sad, funny, immediate...
...transcripts, but that Powell never returned the calls. Journalists familiar with Powell's operation question this; Powell is not that difficult to reach. But there is no question that he was derelict in not pursuing the matter; in the crush of his campaign duties, he apparently just forgot to check back...
...showing them the books, and left. Mostly they'd ask how much they were; I told them ($36.93, including all state and local taxes), they said they had no money, and I left. Sometimes I took an order from people who didn't have any money, either because I forgot to ask or they didn't tell me, or both. If I found out at the time (usually when they said that they could not, rather than chose not, to put down a deposit), I tore up the order. This is what the company says to do. If I didn...
Some ten years ago, French Psychologists Vincent Bloch and Pierre Leconte showed that laboratory rats forgot how to do certain things if deprived of REM sleep after training. In a similar experiment by Pearlman, a rat that had mastered an intricate system of avoiding electric shocks to get food was deprived of REM sleep and then starved to death when tests were repeated...