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Stressing that it is more important to "build up a treasury of spirit than a treasury of wealth." Mexican scholar and writer Juan Negrin said last night the Huichol Indians of northwest Mexico possess a "nearly ideal" non-materialistic culture...
Women in the Modern Army (Putnam; $14.95), the answer was not entirely accurate. The women's physical standard was slightly different, mainly because men are generally larger and possess greater upper-body strength. Some women with small hands had trouble negotiating the hand-guards of the M-16 rifle, others with short legs could not keep up with the standard 30-in. marching step. The women were required to do fewer push-ups and sit-ups than the men (16 push-ups and 27 sit-ups for the women, 40 of each for the men), and were allowed...
Quite the contrary. People, even when hoarse, tend to discourse clearly and repetitiously about the common cold. Cold victims routinely elucidate their suffering; those who are ordinarily laconic grow voluble, and the normally gabby become windy, lugubrious. With or without colds, people eagerly pass around whatever they possess of society's huge accumulation of folklore on the subject. (Benjamin Franklin was an archetypal expert on avoiding colds...
Albeit they possess the might...
...combination of intangibles. I like the violence, I like the challenge, I like the clearly defined goals and striving to attain those goals with ten other people. It's one of the few opportunities you have to see what kind of character you possess...