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...smirks. It's the habit of drug prohibition, and it's quietly siphoning off the resources that might be better used for drug treatment or prevention. Numerous authorities have tried to warn us, including most recently the Surgeon General, but she got brushed off like a piece of lint. After all, drug prohibition is right up there with heroin and nicotine among the habits that are hell to kick...
...first thing you notice about Harvard Coach Joe Restic is The Nose. Large, long, and crooked as a crag, it functions in conversation as a kind of vagrant puppy dog, pursuing your glance with friendly persistence. You squirm and wiggle in your chair, brush imaginary lint from your shirt and tie your shoes a couple of times to avoid its forthrightness, but it's no use. Slowly, surely, you settle into your chair, turn to The Nose and submit to his intent eyes...
...early on, team members were dumbstruck by the complexity of their task. Joe Lint, a wildlife biologist with the Bureau of Land Management, recalls discussing the forest's 20,000 species of insects, spiders and other arthropods: "I sat there saying to myself, 'Wow, this thing is so big and complex, I have no idea how this might all fit together.' It put us in a different frame of mind." Out of the assemblage of foresters, biologists, economists, plant and fish experts, geomorphologists, hydrologists and social scientists emerged perhaps the most sophisticated conservation analysis to date. A pioneering effort, says...
...second half, Harvard played better defense but when it dug down deep into its offensive pocket, the Crimson found nothing but lint...
...does not fool around. It does occur to the reader, a couple of pages before the end of the last chapter, that no character named Shorty has yet appeared. But Leonard is our funniest and most reliable folklorist of low, middle and upper-middle lowlife -- the kind of human lint that accumulates in society's navel. He knows his business, doesn...