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...next morning it was apparent that something was seriously wrong with the former First Lady, who is 64. Her husband was the first to notice her problem when he found her in the kitchen trying with difficulty to open a jar of coffee. She also had trouble moving her left arm and left leg. The left side of her face was partially paralyzed, which caused her words to slur. When these symptoms became evident, she was rushed by ambulance to Long Beach Memorial Hospital, 36 miles up the coast from San Clemente. Riding with her were her husband...
...buys up huge amounts of peanuts; last year it purchased about 30% of the entire crop. This crop year, the Government's support operation has cost taxpayers $200 million directly, plus many millions more in high prices for peanut products (the average retail price of a 12-oz. jar of peanut butter jumped from...
...prepare meals, watch others eat, and work on nutrition projects for school. They go on eating binges occasionally, but will secretly induce vomiting afterwards. "One sub-group," Dr. George Tully, an endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, says, "will eat next to nothing for a long time, then gorge a jar of mayonnaise or pickle juice--very unappetizing-sounding orgies--and induce vomiting...
...vignettes is called "The Great Filling Station Holdup." Before Dylan satirized outlaw myths in "Joey," Buffett was already sick of them--he sings about being an unwilling accomplice in a robbery that netted "fifteen dollars and a can of STP/A big ole jar of cashew nuts and a Japanese T.V." Then, while he and his buddy are getting drunk on the money, a sheriff comes, He roughed us, then he cuffed us, And he took us off to jail. No picture on a poster, no reward, and no bail...
When Nosrat-Mosaffari is asked about her gold-fish food-like seasoning jar, she offers it to anyone interested in finding something new and different. Most of the foreign students here don't find Harvard all that new--their backgrounds have usually prepared them for American culture. They find ways of dealing with the minor inconveniences; the larger ones--the ones that go deeper than seasoning--they live with, as an unavoidable part of choosing to go overseas.CrimsonKay J. MatschullatNGOZI OKONJO...