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Foremost among the Big Green's Class of 1993 was quarterback Jay Fiedler. Fieldler took virtually every snap the last three years and set 12 school records, including Ivy League marks for touchdown passes in a game (five) and career (45) and total yardage (5,371). His departure leaves a gaping hole in the team's offense, made worse by key losses on the offensive line and among the receiving corps...
Gump has warmed the collective heart of moviegoers; they spread the word, command their friends to go. They storm music stores for the two-CD album, featuring 32 songs from the rock era. They snap up copies of Winston Groom's 1986 novel, on which the film was based, and copies of Gumpisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump, a pocket-size book of aphorisms from the novel. Then they run back to the theater to relive the experience. "It makes you look at things in a better way than you used to," says W. Bart Edwards, a Gainsville...
...seated in his wheelchair. In slow motion, their lips touch. The camera returns to regular speed as she lifts her lips from his and whispers to him, her lips-sticked lips resisting with amazing elasticity the magnetic force which connects the two of them. You can almost hear the snap when her lips let go, despite the silence on the screen. She whispers, "How's your...
...controversial but appealing theory that the characteristics known today as adhd were vitally important in early hunting societies. They became a mixed blessing only when human societies turned agrarian, Hartmann suggests. "If you are walking in the night and see a little flash, distractibility would be a tremendous asset. Snap decision making, which we call impulsiveness, is a survival skill if you are a hunter." For a farmer, however, such traits can be disastrous. "If this is the perfect day to plant the crops, you can't suddenly decide to wander off into the woods...
...social situations, where our personal scales of justice do their weighing. It may come as a shock that this highest, most spiritual faculty is just as identifiable and in some ways as physically vulnerable as, say, a knee joint. But vulnerable it is. One's moral fiber can literally snap. For it was just such a rupture that led the researchers to their discovery...