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Writers, like the rest of us, are entitled to slow down when they approach retirement age. What Philip Roth did, as he began anticipating the popularly euphemistic Golden Years, was to gun his engine and rev out in rapid succession three of the strongest, most vibrant novels of his long career...
...Crimson would still need a strong spring season to bring the trophy home, however, especially during the climatic final week of the season in June, when nationals for Women’s Dinghies, Team Racing and Coed Dinghies are held in rapid succession...
...form, even if it is nuked Chef Boyardee. I’ve got to cook and prepare it myself, with Leverett Dining Hall in plain sight, a constant reminder of how food in the dining hall is instantly accessible at meal time—none of this rapid-defrost-in-the-toaster or waiting-for-water-to-boil nonsense...
...Cheney said the trouble turned up when he wore a halter cardiac monitor that detected "some minor periods, very short periods, one to two seconds each, of rapid heart rate," he said. "I can't feel anything when it happens, I am asymptotic, nothing shows externally with respect to that...
...hinge not so much on velocity as it does on quick changes of direction. "Just because it's bigger and moves at a higher speed doesn't necessarily make it more dangerous," Avery says. "But what's happened is that a lot of the rides have gone to rapid, multi-directional changes on the track, and when you have rapid changes either side to side, or up or down, then you increase the potential for injuries to occur...