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...Nuclear-medicine specialist Dr. Gene-Jack Wang first recruited a group of 23 male and female volunteers - none of whom were obese and all of whom were in good general health - and instructed them to fast for 17 hours. During that period, he and his team interviewed them about their favorite foods and asked them to rank each on a 1-to-10 scale. The researchers then selected one food for each subject, the only requirement being that it scored 7 or above in desirability. When the 17 hours were up, the volunteers were injected with a nuclear tracer, placed...
...After Friday has a close encounter with Animal Control, Andi reconsiders the wisdom of keeping their beloved pet; maybe she and Bruce aren't giving him the stable home every clever Jack Russell terrier deserves. If the Scudders knew about him, they'd likely puree him for dinner. It almost seems as though we're about to head into some tough ethical territory, a sort of tween version of the 2008 critics' darling Wendy and Lucy, which featured Michelle Williams wrestling with the bleak prospect that her beloved dog might have a better life with someone else. Then Friday leads...
This line of investigation makes his New York contemporaries view Wyeth as a country cousin. To Larry Rivers, "He's like someone who writes marvelous sonnets, but I don't read sonnets much." To Jack Levine, he is "a symbol of real, real bedrock Americanismo." Painter Robert Motherwell, formerly an art historian, says: "I would imagine that an impressionist would have looked at the pre-Raphaelites with astonishment, and I feel a parallel astonishment regarding the works of Wyeth." But they all look carefully at what Wyeth does, and agree that there is something uncanny, macabre and mysterious...
Artist composes 80-page Shining tribute made up of nothing but the words "All work and no play makes Jack a dull...
...Washington to Reagan have ridden their charismatic poise to the White House. But as history has shown, precarious times tend to breed particularly ready discipleship. With disquiet overseas and recession on the domestic horizon, there is an aura of unconditional public trust around the man many call the next Jack Kennedy that is already putting his decisions unsettlingly above scrutiny...