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...doubles, Harvard's new number one combination of Brian Davis and Jose Gonzalez -- a pair of strong servers and keen volleyers -- downed Gottleib and Steve Naison...
...said Winston Churchill some years before his death. "They have never worried me and I haven't worried them." This remark, recalled by the great man's physician, Lord Moran, was very Churchillian and very 19th century. It was the remark of a man who, despite a keen global vision, still thought it easy for the West to regard itself as the center of the world. To many of his era the periphery of that world lay somewhere in the jungle, well beyond the enclave of civilization. But yesterday's jungle is often today's battlefield...
Alas, Emily is in love with somebody almost as saccharine as herself: a Noble Youth endowed with "manly frankness, simplicity, and keen susceptibility to the grandeur of nature." His name is Valancourt, and his idea of passionate lovemaking is to beseech, if Emily thinks him "not unworthy such honour," whether he "might be permitted sometimes to enquire after your health." She, almost fainting with emotion: "I will acknowledge that you possess my esteem." He: "O Emily! this moment is the most sacred of my life...
...that wander through the body like arteries of air-feeds oxygen to the organs up to 431 times as fast as lungs do. Their circulatory system frequently includes a mechanism that reverses blood flow when a clot obstructs the heart. A male moth's numerous "noses" are so keen that he can smell a female more than a mile away. And as for sex, insects hold the patents on mass reproduction. The East African queen termite lays 43,000 eggs a day, and in a single summer two common houseflies can multiply into...
...share of it supplied by the big cats themselves. Two portray Elsa as a young adult, their identities smoothly meshed in the part, while 17 others maul major and minor roles, tearing down clotheslines, chewing seat cushions or carcasses, chasing elephants, or scaring the district commissioner (Geoffrey Keen) into fits of quietly civilized panic. The Adamsons are played by a British husband-and-wife team, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, who perform with a conviction that nearly matches their courage among lions. The result of a year's filming is a wonderfully credible re-creation of man-animal friendship...