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Researchers in the field have speculated that obesity serves as a marker of a sedentary lifestyle. Obese people tend to spend more time indoors, breathing in harmful air pollutants that are recycled in air circulation systems...
Countless Harvard students have passed by his marker on Mass. Avenue. They pause before the face etched in brass, and the stern visage beneath the hard-hat peers back. His eyes search off into the distance, grimy and determined. Where is he looking? What is he feeling? And, for the love of Pete, just who is this John "Muggsie" Kelly that he rates his own monument on prime Harvard Square property, earning a momentary glance (if not a full-fledged stare) from thousands of pedestrians daily...
...twisting, he and I had the go-ahead. We walked to the paint store on Broadway, chattering as we went about how cool our new room would be. We brought home two gallons of light blue latex paint and, standing on stools, we drew cloud shapes with a marker on the white ceiling. We pried open the paint cans, wet our fat brushes and filled in the blue sky, creating clouds...
...grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...
Today there is no marker, no mention of any of this on Sullivan's Island--just beach homes and speedboats bobbing in the sun. "The reason people are afraid to talk about slavery is the terrible truth of someplace like this," says Ball. He learned of the pest houses while writing Slaves in the Family (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $30), his chronicle of his slave-owning family and the blacks they held. "Look at this," he sighs. "The story has absolutely been erased...