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...determined to do it, because there just wasn’t a lot of support,” says Borthwick, who was on the Radcliffe crew team and helped start the women’s track and field team. The women’s crew team would practice in secondhand boats and its coach was not paid...
...always on the lookout for Indian writers in whose work he might find encouragement. Narayan, writing in English about small people in a small south Indian town, would have been especially interesting for my father. I went to Blackwell's, the Oxford bookseller, and in the secondhand section found three Narayan titles. One was The Bachelor of Arts...
LOOK, MA, CAVITIES! Thought you had heard every reason to quit smoking? Here's a new one: to protect your kids' teeth. It turns out that secondhand smoke can nearly double the risk that kids ages 4 through 11 will develop cavities. What's the connection? A by-product of nicotine called cotinine, once thought to kill off the bacteria linked to cavities, actually does the opposite, encouraging tooth-destroying bugs to grow and multiply...
...said she receives phone calls from her professors to give her reading assignments and even had a secondhand sourcebook for one of her classes passed through the window...
...Liverpool had somebody in the family who went to sea. You looked at other people, and they seemed like little gray people who worked in offices and taught in schools. We had these drunken seaman uncles who were larger than life, who would come back in bright, gaudy, secondhand suits they bought in Palm Beach. They had money, you know, and they'd throw it 'round when everyone else was careful...