Word: showering
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...other system is anaerobic, in which muscles use reactions that do not depend on oxygen to produce energy from carbohydrates and other chemicals stored in the muscle. Sprinters -- as well as nonathletes dashing from the shower to grab a ringing phone -- rely to a large extent on this system, which provides lots of quick power but can operate for only a short time. The reasons: depletion of the necessary chemicals and buildup of a chemical by- product called lactic acid, which inhibits muscle contraction. Middle- distance athletes depend on a delicate balance of both aerobic and anaerobic systems...
...prepared to engage them on the values front, they should play a video of the Clintons' triumphant two-block march from the basement of Macy's to the convention hall after the Ohio delegation put the nominee over the top at 10:54 p.m. Entering the Garden to a shower of confetti and 30 minutes of boisterous cheering, the couple and their young daughter looked as happy and wholesome as a family...
...girl story, laced throughout with sex, sex, sex. But no skin flick here. Just innuendo and a good-taste-be-damned-scene staged inside a woman's vagina. Plenty of condoms, plenty of high school bullies and ever-short-skirted cheer-leaders, and of course, a girls' locker room shower scene...
...night in completed shock. I felt mentally assaulted by my own popular culture. How sad that the networks can count on us to be in our living rooms at night, ready to flip through channels of TV programming that will leave us feeling like we need to take a shower. We, need to take a shower. We, the jelly-brained viewers, aren't the only victims, either. Think of the Jennys, Susies, and Lisas. Think of the King...
...also been thinking about the comments that are always made about the shower rooms and the lack of privacy, and that is absolutely true. There is a lack of privacy in the military, particularly in the lower ranks, where people are treated like cattle and not afforded any sort of privacy for the most intimate personal care. And then they say, "Well, we're worried about what happens between people in this place where you have no privacy." How easy it would be just to hang a shower curtain to give any one of us a little bit of privacy...