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After the day's final flight, Costen shyly accepts the $500 check and the big black and yellow world's champion rib bon from Host Evans. Two hundred T shirts have been sold, the sarsaparilla has given out and the Olympic torch is flickering low. Wiping the fried chicken from their fingers, the satisfied spectators slowly meander toward the car pasture. "See you all next year," says Evans, as a state policeman helps the campers and pickups thread in among the giant semis barreling along Route 35. From one departing truck, a rooster crows an unprintable reply. - Spencer...
...need. In part, that is done to reassure patients or to protect themselves against malpractice suits. Says Dr. E. Kash Rose, senior radiologist at Queen of the Valley Hospital in Napa, Calif.: "One study showed that 80% of skull X rays were unnecessary for care and treatment of patients. Rib X rays are done purely for the mental relief of the patient rather than for medical reasons. The treatment is exactly the same" whether the X ray discloses a fracture...
...wife that it is time to leave a party, he is likely to tilt his head and roll his eyes in the direction of the door. In France, the signal is sharper: a chopping motion by one hand against the opposite wrist. Cupping the palms upward against the rib cage is a Frenchman's way of indicating that a woman is well endowed. The gesture is sometimes rendered as Il y a du monde au balcon, which translates as "There is a crowd in the balcony...
Jamie Egasti, Faught, Norman Forbush and Gordie Nelson--playing despite a rib injury--regularly isolated their defenders with mixed results. Faught nailed three goals, all excellent shots, while Forbush tallied one. Egasti and Nelson were shut...
...Adam's Rib. Harkness Commons, Friday and Saturday...