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...rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only thing left to do, according to the American mind, is to get a more efficient organization which will prevent such a catastrophe in the ture. I leave it to the reader to select his own illustration of this peculiar American tendency...
Harvard baseball isn’t about a lot of things. It isn’t about large crowds or state-of-the-art facilities or sparkling new stadiums. But it has always been about the intense and peculiar pressure of an Ivy title...
...Audette's CAVEMAN DIET doesn't involve carb or calorie counting or any peculiar formulas but instead urges wannabe Paleolithic dieters to ask one simple question: Could I eat this if I were naked with a sharp stick on the savanna? That guiding principle rules out grains, beans, potatoes, dairy, sugar and virtually all processed foods. --By Julie Rawe
...answer, most scientists suspect, has to do with a peculiar process called parental or genomic imprinting, which seems to occur only in mammals. Biologists have discovered subtle changes that are made to about 100 genes and that make a mammalian DNA molecule distinctly male or female. How does a cell know which form to imprint on its DNA? It checks out the surrounding microscopic environment to see if it seems more male-like or female-like...
American car owners have a peculiar habit. When we walk out of a mall, blinking and dazed, and realize we've forgotten where we've parked, we scan the parking lot, keys in hand, and ask, "Where am I?" Where am I--because your car, in this country, is you. It expresses your aspirations, your taste, your social class and your virility (or your need to compensate for same). I learned this growing up near Detroit, where people lived for their cars--American cars!--and lived by the GM slogan, "It's not just your car, it's your freedom...