Word: rowing
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...that Julia's long-gone mother is not dead but teaching school in Oregon. A reunion follows, not a word of which is believable, including the mother's rueful assertions that she deserted Julia's father for a lover, and later watched Julia's college graduation from a back row. This slack stuff is soap opera, and even a writer as gifted as Hegi can't dress it up as anything else...
...insists he did not commit: the 1981 slaying of police officer Daniel Faulkner. Sympathizers around the globe from Dublin to Soweto hail him as a political prisoner punished for taking journalistic aim at politicians, police and the prison system (most recently in a book entitled Live from Death Row). If he is put to death, they argue, he will be the first American since Ethel and Julius Rosenberg to be executed for his political beliefs. Detractors, on the other hand, have sought to silence him temporarily--and permanently. After his book came out, Faulkner's widow hired a plane...
...believes, however, that the judge, Albert Sabo, may be an obstacle. Sabo conducted the original trial and is presiding over the hearing to determine whether there will be a second trial, despite appeals that he recuse himself. Sabo holds the national record for sending the most people to death row: 31. Back in 1982, he refused to let Abu-Jamal represent himself, and appointed an attorney. The defense team cites several flaws in that attorney's performance. He assented to a jury made up of 10 whites and two blacks, hardly representative of the Philadelphia population, which was 40% black...
...transition to land was likely a gradual affair involving multiple stages of evolutionary change. The skeletons of fish, with their slender bones arrayed all in a row, are clearly ill suited for walking and running. Moreover, the muscles of fish are designed to deliver power in all the wrong places. "Think about tucking into a tetrapod [a cow, for instance] for Sunday lunch," says Coates. "The best cuts are the thighs and shoulders, the muscle motors that drive these animals along. In a fish these motors are pathetic, tiny things. It's the back and tail muscles that propel...
...cancer, as opposed to from it. "You can't guarantee a 100% cure," says Dr. Gerald Chodak, director of the Prostate/Urology Center at University of Chicago Hospital. "But the odds are very much in his favor." In Chodak's opinion, Dole could run for President "three times [in a row] and not get into trouble" from his prostate. Whether or not he will get that chance is still, of course, up to the electorate...