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...main character in Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight’s Children, Saleem Sinai, has been called his most beloved character and is often identified with Rushdie himself. Saleem struggled with a magical “snot-nose, cucumber-nose,” as well as impotence. More greatness post-jump...
...video clip is stomach-turning. A Domino's employee in Conover, N.C., is seen assembling sandwiches, spraying snot on them, sticking cheese up his nose before placing it on a piece of bread and passing gas on a slice of salami. The woman holding the camera narrates. "In about five minutes, they'll be sent out to delivery, where somebody will be eating these, yes, eating them. And little did they know that cheese was in his nose and that there was some lethal gas that ended up on their salami," she proclaims proudly. "That's how we roll...
...parasites, children's immune systems may be getting weaker and even bored, with little or nothing to fight. This theory was first posited 20 years ago by a British epidemiologist who noticed that children with more siblings had less hay fever than kids in smaller (and presumably less snot- and germ-laden) families. It could explain the climbing incidence of all allergies - not just those to foods - as well as asthma. Sanitation can't demystify the entire trend, but the so-called hygiene hypothesis remains the leading answer to baffled parents' questions...
...This is, in fact, a big change. In the Bush Administration, accomplished and independent-minded Cabinet Secretaries like former governors Christine Todd Whitman and Tommy Thompson bristled at marching orders from snot-nosed twentysomething White House apparatchiks. Obama's picks suggest that while his Cabinet Secretaries will take marching orders, the orders will at least come from seasoned heavyweights...
...things that we did late at night at The Advocate. In one film we smoked two packs of cigarettes in like 25 minutes. I mean we’re just smoking as fast as we could. There’s one shot of me and there’s snot coming out of my nose and I’m crying and there’s lots of saliva. It’s just very intense.—Staff writer Jeff W. Feldman can be reached at jfeldman@fas.harvard.edu...