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Wives who shrink from a round-the-clock application of Dorothy Carnegie's rules are given an example of the sort of man a non-Carnegie attitude produces: "Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the English poet." Coleridge had plenty of enthusiasm but no goal and presumably no checks on his calorie intake, no praise for his taste in ties. Consequently, he left much of his poetry "unfinished . . . dissipated his talents . . . lived in a world of unrealized dreams . . . was always on the verge of doing something and . . . never did it." Oddly enough, it is the image of Coleridge -dissipated, useless and lovable...
...first drink-it's the first drink that's the dangerous one-you're one drink away from a drunk. A little beer here and there and this horrible social drinking will lead to death, disgrace, and disease. The liver will turn purple, the brain shrink...
...Most men shrink from death. Tazio Nuvolari spent most of his life racing toward it. Born in the little village of Castel d'Ario, in the province of Mantua, he first challenged death at 13, jumping off his parents' roof with an umbrella for a parachute. Tazio got off with a few bruises...
...Author Buck shows, David has come a degree closer to a solution than his father did. But as the years pass, David, too, begins to shrink in stature. His Poona mission station grows so famed that it loses its Christian simplicity, and becomes to David what railroads became to his father. David dreads Indian independence. If the British raj is booted out, who will protect his lifework from destruction? It is now his turn to be horrified when his devout son Ted walks out on his father's seminary and goes to live among Indians in a village...
Remove the source of the hormones, and 95% of prostate cancers shrink (though 75% later become active again). "Of course we never use the word castration," he says. "It has bad psychological connotations. It's like a doctor who is about to take out your appendix saying, 'I'm going to butcher you up.' " Sometimes Surgeon Huggins does remove the testicles, but often their hormones can be neutralized, without operation, by a female hormone...