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...making, I think, fairly simple points and they're not outrageous in any way. I'm simply pointing out we're promising a lot of stuff but we're not actually doing it. Maybe we should find a smarter...
...reacted to it--at least after we got hold of ourselves. Moscow, we figured, was already scary enough, what with Eastern Europe under lockdown and a bristle of missiles protecting it. There was no reason to make the bad guys badder; instead, we ought to make ourselves smarter...
...manipulated by forces beyond his control. But in the long run—and over his three books, Waugh is able to establish that long run—Guy comes out on top by virtue of his devotion to duty. He is surrounded by men who are smarter, cleverer, and more ambitious than he, but Waugh eventually brings each of them to grief, and often to death or insanity. Guy adheres to traditions which sometimes he does not fully understand but in whose goodness he has deep faith. The beauty of the trilogy comes through Guy’s internal...
...using the word icon to refer to every pop star?) Forty years ago, the Beatles and Bob Dylan, and a lot of other talented young folks, wrote and performed terrific songs that opened the minds of people my age, expanded the pop-music vocabulary and generally made listeners feel smarter, cooler, better. And now we have two ambitious movies - Julie Taymor's Across the Universe and Todd Haynes's I'm Not There, both of which played this week at the Toronto Film Festival - that are carpeted with the music of the Fab Four and the man from Hibbing, Minnesota...
...benefits of breast-feeding are many and varied. Studies suggest that breast-fed kids are smarter, taller, thinner, healthier and less stressed than babies on bottles. Plus, breast-feeding helps moms bond with their babies and may even lower their blood pressure. So, is there anything breast milk can't do? Apparently, yes, according to a new study published Tuesday by BMJ Online: It doesn't offer infants much defense against asthma or allergies...