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...parable: "It is like the two fellows in the hot air balloon who get lost in a cloud and, emerging, call down to a man on the ground, 'Where are we?' The fellow calls back, 'In a hot air balloon.' The answer, like a lot of regulations, is absolutely accurate but totally useless...
...question the nutritional claims of a lot of these cereals," said Freitas, whose prosecutor's office handles consumer fraud complaints. "That, coupled with what appears to us to be misleading ads which encourage kids to believe that a product will somehow make them champion athletes, led us to take action." Freitas' suit demanded proof that Tenner really eats the cereal and that he had done so since childhood. "I like Wheaties, and I eat them two or three times a week," retorted an indignant Tenner at a press conference organized by General Mills. "When...
...observers have complained that television, now seeming to intrude so thoroughly in diplomacy, has set itself up as a kind of fourth branch of the U.S. Government. But television governs nothing, forms no diplomatic policies, in fact had a lot less to do with the Sadat visit than William Randolph Hearst's newspapers had to do with the Spanish-American War. No doubt its technology has changed society; technology often does. It has been argued that the developing use of the stirrup, which enabled a rider to carry a lance, created the system of land payments to knights...
Even when the uniforms fit, survival is difficult. Pruitt puts on "a lot of jukes and lateral movement" so that he does not get hit head on. "It's just like two trains colliding-the smaller one is going to take the most punishment." Johnson stares upfield at "an immovable mountain" and pours on the speed to run around it. St. Louis Cardinals Wide Receiver Mel Gray (5 ft. 9 in., 175 Ibs.) dislocated a shoulder trying to take out a bigger man and has since left the blocking to others. "Trying to be a hero, I ran into...
...work habits and careful craftsmanship, though, McPhee resembles the outdoor loners, the cerebral athletes, the prickly eccentrics who regularly pop up in his books. "I don't consciously seek out subjects for their expertise," he says. "But people who are experts at something put a lot of effort into becoming experts. I am attracted by their single-minded drive." In pursuit of his own expertise, McPhee has become an ideal McPhee subject...