Word: jeffrey
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Finally, there's the idea that we like to hang with people who are like ourselves. Cornell food sociologist Jeffrey Sobal explains that "especially among two overweight people, there's a sort of permission-giving going on. We're encouraging each other to eat more...
...characters on television and in films, openly gay celebrities and gay public gatherings. Manila held Asia's first gay-pride parade in 1994; this year there were similar festivals in a dozen other Asian cities. "If nothing else, people aren't denying the existence of homosexuality anymore," says Jeffrey O'Malley, the director of the HIV group for the United Nations Development Program in New York City. "That's a huge difference from 20 years...
...actor Mark Priest died in a hospital where he was being treated for a broken vertebra in his neck and other injuries from a fall that took place four days earlier during a mock sword fight at Captain Jack's Pirate Tutorial audience-participation show. According to his friend Jeffrey Breslauer, Priest - just before he died - said he was performing the sword fight on a new stage for the first time and slipped on a wet spot. The third death occurred on Aug. 17, when stuntman Anislav Varbanov broke his neck while practicing a tumbling roll at Disney's Hollywood...
...Jeffrey Kluger's "Moon Walkers" left me with a new appreciation of our astronauts [July 27]. It was carefully researched and beautifully written and filled in the gap in my knowledge of the lives of these men after their missions. Kluger's last paragraph on the "enduring legacy" of the 24 men's unique "comradeship" will stay with me. They are more human and more heroic than I ever imagined. Gerry Mandel, ST. LOUIS...
Over the Moon Jeffrey Kluger's "Moon Walkers" left me with a new appreciation of our astronauts [July 27]. It was carefully researched and beautifully written and filled in the gap in my knowledge of the lives of these men after their missions. Kluger's last paragraph on the enduring legacy of the 24 men's unique comradeship will stay with me. They are more human and more heroic than I ever imagined. Gerry Mandel, St. Louis...