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After seven years in rowing shells waiting attentively for the coach’s directions, you would think it easy to formulate commands of my own. You would be mistaken. Like all first efforts, mine at giving instructions were awkward. “Alright guys, we want to keep the shoulders quiet and steady, and change directions from the hips. Understand what I’m saying?” Those words, in my head so sensible and accurate, were initially met with bemused looks and, a little later, with unenthusiastic action...
...anytime you get a break in that barrier--even a tiny cut--there's a chance some bacteria will get inside and infect the wound. What makes MRSA germs particularly dangerous is that they excrete a potent toxin that attacks the skin, causing an abscess that's often mistaken for a spider bite. Normally, the body can wall that area off. But if the infection spreads, treatment with antibiotics may be called...
...American Women,” was born.FIGHTING BACK“Backlash” argued that feminism was being wrongly blamed for a host of social problems. Society’s discomfort with feminism, Faludi wrote, was behind false fears of an “infertility crisis” and mistaken beliefs that single women were unfulfilled. Faludi claimed that women needed more of feminism’s influence, not less.The book won a National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction in 1992 after becoming a bestseller, and was followed in 1999 by “Stiffed: The Betrayal...
...leaders refused. They hewed to containment, a policy premised on a very different mind-set. "The advocates of preventive war with Russia assume that Russia will grow stronger and we will get weaker," argued theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, whose writing influenced the Truman Administration. "Their calculations are not only strategically mistaken but morally wrong." "NSC-68," which outlined the Truman Administration's cold war strategy, predicted it was Moscow that would eventually falter, because the "idea of freedom" is "peculiarly and intolerably subversive of slavery...
...interpretations are explicitly designated, conflicts of interest are expressly named. In contrast, live-blogging reports and online analyses carry the semblance of factual objectivity without any sort check to personal bias, and when they’re the public’s primary information source, this semblance can be mistaken for authenticity...