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...clock ticks down for the company commanders. They must make sure that every soldier is qualified to handle his weapon, meaning he can snap-shoot a quarter-inch hole in a soccer ball at 100 yards. They must make sure the right equipment is shipped--from helicopters shrink-wrapped in plastic to protect them from the salt air on the ships heading out of Savannah, to flyswatters (a dozen for every 150 men, same for mousetraps...
...that my mother is a therapist and points it out to me. In fact, the only time I've been to a therapy session was when she brought me with her and my dad to talk about how their divorce was hurting my sister; when I got there, the shrink pulled out a column my mom had planted there that I had written for my college paper about being unable to feel anything, which deeply concerned my mom. A column that may or may not have lines I'm reusing right...
...interest in the marriage, and the people at work just didn't seem to give them the credit or attention they deserve. Often, they stay only long enough to decide that what they really need is to leave the marriage and quit the job. After that, they sack the shrink...
ADOLESCENCE 13-20 yrs. The brain begins to shrink, losing about 2% of its weight and volume in each successive decade. Abnormally high loss of gray matter during this period may be a cause of teenage schizophrenia...
...artists such as Otis Redding, Iggy Pop, Run-D.M.C., Compay Segundo and Brigitte Fontaine. On some albums, a song track or two has been rendered unplayable when the disc was notched, which is supposed to make it unsellable. The increasing majority, however, are pristine, still in their original shrink-wrap and often carrying the price tags of the overseas retailers that couldn't unload them...