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...will never forget the almost aristocratic courtliness of the local soccer team, on those "slow Saturdays, when football like life was still played in black and white, and in shorts as long as underwear, when it was still not venal, when sportsmen and -women knew how to win and lose with grace and never to punch the air in victory." Or perhaps it was the strong bodies of the sportsmen that transfixed the young Terry. He realized he was different when he watched professional wrestling - or rather, the wrestlers: "O save me from those dark desires which thrill and compel...
...land is used to grow fuel instead of food, an extra acre somewhere else is probably going to be converted into farmland to grow food. And that acre may well be an acre of wetland or forest that would otherwise store loads of carbon. So farm fuels become a lose-lose deal: exacerbating the deforestation that already creates one fifth of the world's carbon emissions, and driving up global food prices. (See pictures of the global food crisis...
...much should people exercise when they only have less than 50 pounds to lose? The key is intensity. Incorporate weight training, but don't overdo it. Don't do more than eight hours a week. Definitely not more than ten hours a week...
...clear is what will happen if things go poorly. The reason for the hundreds of billions of dollars being added to the federal deficit is the belief that the government can buy its way out of the recession. If that does not happen, the average citizen will lose what has been his last, best hope for having a reasonable economic life instead of living through a multi-year period of national financial stagnation and intransigent, high unemployment. It will be a world in which almost no one believes that his life will ever improve...
Taken on face value, however, Benedict's brief remarks were eloquent, a kind of prayerful meditation about how the names of those murdered renders them nonetheless inextinguishable from the eternal book of human history. "They lost their lives but they will never lose their names," the Pope said, speaking in his softly accented English. "These are indelibly etched in the hearts of their loved ones, their surviving fellow prisoners, and all those determined never to allow such an atrocity to disgrace mankind again." The Pope clearly grasps the scope and horror of the Holocaust. He added this chilling contemplation...