Word: leans
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Last year, at about 1 p.m. on the 10th of May, Jon Krakauer, on assignment for Outside magazine, plodded toward the 29,028-ft. summit of Mount Everest. Sucking a lean mixture of bottled oxygen and air that only partly made up for the dire thinness of the atmosphere, he managed a single step to three or four heaving breaths. To his oxygen-starved brain, the world beyond his rubber mask, he writes, "was stupendously vivid but seemed not quite real, as if a movie were being projected in slow motion across the front of my goggles. I felt drugged...
Another slice of lox, please. A major study, which followed 2,000 subjects for 30 years, concludes that a mere seven ounces of fish a week can cut by 60% the risk of having a HEART ATTACK. That goes for both lean and fatty fish...
...openness, the vocabulary of liquidity. Minneapolis, not St. Paul, is a mecca for performance artists, people who can't sing or dance or write or act but who can crawl through a pile of truck tires wearing a shower curtain and wave a flashlight and say things. Minneapolitans lean forward and watch them, perspiring, afraid that some subtlety may escape them. St. Paulites look at each other and say, "Whose idea was this...
Daniel Kadlec questioned why Reebok appeared on the California Public Employees' Retirement System's list of laggard companies [MONEY IN MOTION, Feb. 24]. He overlooked 12 reasons: the members of the Reebok board. The sneaker company's "lean years" landed it on the CalPERS list, and rightfully so: $100 invested in its stock in 1991 was worth only $122 five years later, vs. $232 for industry competitors. Sure, Reebok's stock has seen the light in the past 10 months, but this glitch hardly gives CalPERS assurance of the company's future long-term success. Our putting Reebok...
...Deserves It: Minghella is at least at talented as David Lean, but no one balanced horror, comedy, violence, and pathos as skillfully as Coen...