Word: palmers
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Coupland's protagonists are three refugees from our media-dominated (and therefore boomer-defined) society. They live on the edge of the desert near Palm Springs, where "the rich people pay the poor people to cut the thorns from their cactuses." Andy Palmer, Dagmar Belling-hausen and Claire Baxter are all members of Generation X--the generation without cause and without direction...
...lethally misguided effort to study the degenerative effects of syphilis on a group of rural black men in Alabama. Opening the school year with the play "is an institutional statement that we would like all of the diverse people on our campus to understand," says Cornell law professor Larry Palmer...
...Anne F. Palmer...
Still, are most comebacks simply arena addiction? Not in Borg's case. He seems to be back now because he needs the money. But the others? Publicity is, of course, a renewable resource, but did Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer really gain any bankable ink this spring by trying a comeback with the Baltimore Orioles at age 45? Palmer made the right jokes but not the right pitches. He was stopped almost instantly by a torn hamstring. Doesn't he look a little silly...
...could it be that Palmer, Spitz and the others aren't being unrealistic? "We've always had this dogma that the human body peaks at age 26 to 28 and then goes into a slow decline," says Rick Sharp, a professor of exercise physiology at Iowa State University. "But in fact, what we were seeing was not the effects of aging per se, but of increasingly sedentary life-styles." When 50-year-old men and women began running marathons in times that once would have been records, experts began to rethink old ideas about middle...