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...later is likely to suffer from a sprained or twisted ankle, knee inflammation, stress fracture of the leg bone, shin splints, hamstring pulls, low-back pain, heel pain or blood blister of the toes. Says Berson: "Our ancestors evolved by running barefoot across a grassy plain to escape saber-toothed tigers. The human leg is not designed for running long distances on cement...
Foote told of the Confederate valor. Of General Armistead, who, with his hat on his saber, reached for the muzzle of a Union cannon, then fell with mortal wounds. He told of retreat. A young Southerner going down the slope walked backward so he would not be hit in the back. Robert E. Lee met his men with tears in his eyes to tell them it was his fault. "He pretty much told the truth," said Carter, pondering the lapses of judgment that are now attributed to Lee, who was almost superhuman in all other ways, in most other places...
Brown's visit to White Sands and his major speech later in the week in San Francisco were not acts of saber rattling. His performance was part of the most carefully coordinated Administration attempt so far to articulate its defense strategy and its foreign policy goals. The Administration did seem, at least for now, to have harmonized its dissonant voices. The theme was clear: America is second to none in strength, but is nevertheless committed to long-term cooperation-with the Soviets wherever possible...
...clearer picture of the need for more defense spending, ending the Turkish arms embargo, searching for better ways to help beleaguered friends. But then THE BETTMANN ARCHIVE Carter's political weakness surfaced. Talking tough was a way to rally American voters and foreign leaders, a bit of saber rattling that almost seemed to fulfill a script lightly pondered last fall by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Talking to some congressional aides, Brzezinski said it might be good for Carter if he were to have a "Mayaguez," recalling the ship seizure by Cambodians in which Gerald Ford counterattacked with Marines...
...patron; he preferred jewelry, knickknacks, antiques and rare manuscripts to either painting or contemporary sculpture. The idea of disinterested art patronage in the service of some imagined "public good" did not occur to him−any more than it would have occurred to his successors, the royal families and saber-toothed generalissimos of 16th and 17th century Europe, who amassed vast collections to glorify themselves and reinforce their power by visible imagery...