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...Texas do not exactly like to talk about mesquite; to do so is a little like discussing roaches with a New Yorker. But in some ways, mesquite controls and defines the landscape. Because it exerts such exorbitant claims upon a starkly limited water supply, mesquite (in conspiracy with prickly pear, cedar and other heavy drinkers) dictates what will flourish and what will wither; it decides whether the cattle and sheep will have enough range grass to grow fat upon. Water and brush run certain segments of the West Texas economy in an almost embarrassingly thorough way. Sisyphus rolled a boulder...
...women weight watchers, the battle of the bulge is often lost at the hips. No matter how they exercise, excess pounds seem to pile up there and at the buttocks and thighs. But at last there seems to be some compensation for the pear-shaped. (No, not another grapefruit diet.) According to Dr. Ahmed Kissebah of the Medical College of Wisconsin, overweight women whose body fat is concentrated below the waist run a relatively low risk of contracting diabetes, a frequently serious disease that disrupts the normal metabolism of sugar into energy and afflicts one out of 20 Americans. Conversely...
...swimming--a goldfish; DAVE COATSWORTH. Classics concentrator and men's volleyball--To see Reagan impeached; LAMAR FLATT, men's basketball--A bag of tricks and a behind the back pass like Calvin Dixon's while looking into the stands: CALVIN DIXON, men's basketball--A partridge in a pear tree: GWEN GORMAN, co-captain of women's swimming--To have her whole thesis written: LILY PEW women's field hockey, squash and lacrosse--A Walkman tape player; JOE CARRABINO, men's basketball--A 450 SL convertible and a 14-inch vertical leap; TIM PENDERGAST, men's lacrosse--A dinner...
...fourteenth and final round started with Hearns circling around the ring, trying to regain his composure. Midway through the round, however, a tremendous Leonard right hand staggered Hearns. Leonard followed Hearns to the ropes and punched him at well. Referee Davey Pear, stopped the fight when Leonard landed a dozen solid blows with Hearns draped over the ropes...
...first normal meal consisted of consommé and a boiled, mashed pear, and the next day he tackled a bowl of stracciatella, a hot chicken broth with egg drops. There were clear signs last week that Pope John Paul II was on his way to recovery-and, as usual with any job he tackled, doing it robustly. Doctors at Rome's Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic removed the 26 stitches they had inserted after a would-be assassin's bullet ripped through the Pope's abdomen on May 13. The Pontiff received visitors, made brief voyages to a nearby...