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...cake," she answered with a smile. "But...it weights 51/4 pounds and you can buy it by the slice...
...breast and within about ten minutes had removed the lump. It proved to be 2 cm. in circumference-no bigger than the tip of a man's little finger. A technician rushed the lump to the pathology department, where it was fast-frozen with liquid nitrogen. A thin slice was cut, which a pathologist examined under a microscope. Within five minutes the message was relayed to Fouty: malignant cells. In a 2½-hour procedure, Fouty removed the entire right breast, its underlying pectoral muscle, and lymphoid tissue in the adjacent armpit. This tissue was also sent to pathology...
...Levy-Shea offers not only a 30-minute yoga session but also a low-calorie lunch (sample menu: organic apple juice, four raw string beans, tomato wedges, sliced cucumber, green pepper, celery, radish, figs, unsalted cashew nuts and a slice of Russian black bread with a hunk of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese). Regular yoga conditioning, says Levy, "reduces colds and other respiratory problems. People say they have fewer headaches and sleep sounder." It also-Masters and Johnson, please note -improves one's sex life. Sex? Well, explains Levy, "you have fewer tensions, you're relaxed, and you learn...
Basically, The Longest Yard is a cynical, often brutal, crudely stated movie that blends two seemingly unmixable genres-the slice of sadistic prison life and the equally ancient tale of an underdog football team conquering impossible odds to win the Big Game...
...hoodwinked into smuggling heroin for a fat-fingered hood, concocts on his own all sorts of wild-eyed quick-money schemes. The revenue from these assorted enterprises goes partly to help his brother through medical school and into the country club, and largely to buy himself a huge slice of lakeside real estate in the country. He has dreams of opening his own resort, and thinks often of what his grandfather told him: "A man without land is a nobody...