Word: slow
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...will seem more like good subversive fun. The conceit is that the book's illustrator, Ned--who is often depicted hard at work--can't paint fast enough to stay ahead of the reader. So a cartoon stand-in for Lendler keeps turning up to urge the reader to slow down for Ned's sake and to please, please not turn the page yet. Now, what youngster can resist defying such a request? The narrative, a standard knight-rescuing-an-imprisoned-princess tale, unravels ridiculously as the overwhelmed Ned is forced to improvise. Tutus are substituted for missing armor...
...paused, forkfuls of organic food halfway to their mouths, as company founder John Hardy stood up to read from a stack of old report cards that his mother had just sent from Canada. ?Listless, inattentive, distracted,? he recited. ?A daydreamer. Tries his best, but is too slow.? Hardy flipped to the last card in the pile, dated June 22, 1967, and continued. ?John has not been successful in completing his requirements to graduate. He will need to repeat 12th grade.? Hardy laid his old report cards on the table and addressed his now silent...
...months after treatment was discontinued. The effect was apparently greatest with the drug pramipexole, which investigators theorize indirectly triggered the "reward system" of the brain. Fortunately, the urge to gamble didn't seem to show up in folks who only took the major Parkinson's drug, with carbidopa to slow its effect...
...more than 50% if they take them before hospitalization and within 24 hours after the attack. Doctors think the cholesterol- and inflammation-reducing effects of the drugs may even help Alzheimer's patients; in a three-year study published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, statins appeared to slow the progress of the disease...
...mixed results. Rusadi (like many Indonesians, he has only one name) made the cardboard sign because he was tired of being asked about the health of his merchandise. "I've been selling chicken for years and never had to do this," he says. Despite the reassuring signage, business is slow. Sales are down about 30 percent, which is still better than earlier in the year, when Rusadi sold nothing for a week after the first death caused by bird flu in Indonesia was confirmed in July. "A lot of people,? he says, ?are switching to fish...