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With Grandin and other subjects, Sacks has refined the case history into an art form. As his friend and colleague New York City neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg puts it, "Oliver has salvaged the uniqueness of patients from statistical averaging." Indeed, each essay seems like an extended house call from an old-fashioned family doctor. There is also Sacks' open, encompassing style that welcomes the reader into his esoteric world. "A neurologist's life is not systematic," he writes, "but it provides him with novel and unexpected situations, which can be windows, peepholes, into the intricacy of nature-an intricacy that...
...good bet. Inspired by an article she read last year, Salm links any actor or actress to Kevin bacon within six steps or less. For example, a past .plan revealed, "Macaulay Culkin was in Getting Even with Dad with Ted Danson who was in Made in America with Whoopi Goldberg who was in The Lion King with James Earl Jones who was in JFK with Kevin Bacon." Salm remarks, "I invite people to e-mail me if they think of shorter ways to do the ones I have posted...I change my .plan a few times a week, usually when...
Even the most fervent shorts lovers don't wear them all the time. Mike Maciszewski '96 estimates that he wears shorts when it is 45F or warmer outside. Dave Goldberg '95 is a little more serious about his shorts, which he only abandons for a month and a half of the year. Don Hayler '97 is a bit more daring. So far this winter, he has not put on pants to go outside, though he did concede to wearing shorts for about 10 or 15 days last winter. He once stepped outside in his shorts and "went back inside...
...them of the dangers of catching a cold. They also are constantly subjected to looks and comments from friends and strangers alike. Ed Park often overhears people telling each other, "Hey! Look at that stupid person: he's wearing shorts." Sometimes, these people are his friends. Last winter, Dave Goldberg was stopped by a complete stranger and asked who his dealer was so he could "get some of whatever [Dave was] on." When walking out of William James Hall one bitterly cold day, Don Hayler encountered a truck driver who rolled down his window and yelled, "put on some fucking...
Shorts wearers themselves do make some efforts to explain their lifestyles. Dave Goldberg says, "the real reason is just inertia. All summer and fall I get up and put on shorts, it's real habit-forming." Others point to the many advantages of shorts: comfort, ease of removal and, according to Tim Griffiths, the ability to flee attackers more effectively than pants wearers...