Word: marmot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Linda is 30 now. Her skin is flawed, and her lank dark hair is sketched with gray. She has great wet marmot eyes. She has a quick, sly mouth. She looks like a 17-year-old who has spent three days on a bus. A photographer whose profession calls for him to make cool calibrations of female beauty says her face is ordinary and her body nothing special. In courtly times he would have been skewered. She sings You 're No Good, Desperado or Love Has No Pride, and the eye of the beholder mists over. She is beautiful...
...Berkeley team, headed by Dr. Michael Marmot, conducted a ten-year study of some 4,000 Japanese men living in the San Francisco area, investigating their background and lifestyle as well as their diet, cholesterol levels, smoking habits and other factors usually associated with heart disease. When the data were finally analyzed, it became apparent that the Japanese who cling to their traditional lifestyles, which defuse tension by emphasizing acceptance of the individual's place in both family and society, fare well. Even those who indulge in high-fat diets suffer fewer coronaries than their American counterparts. But those...
...rather than as individuals. But once they enter the U.S., many become subject to the same stresses as Americans. "Most Americans move away from their support group during their lives, move from one place to another, drop old friends and take up with a new set of people," explains Marmot. "That's a very un-Japanese thing...