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...Experts estimate that at puberty, when there is a spurt in bone growth, people require 1,200 mg of calcium daily (the equivalent of four glasses of milk or about 6 oz. of hard cheese). Postmenopausal women require 1,500 mg to offset the resorption process...
...Buchwald columns, covering events in the capital from the summer 1980 campaign to the Janet Cooke-Pulitzer Prize scandal. Though divided into unnamed chapters, the book has no obvious thematic thread. Pieces on nuclear war alternate with those on garage sales and cocktail parties. In almost every 750-word spurt, Buchwald manages to get in some downright funny lines, and from time to time an entire installment is clever. For example, no one has challenged Buchwald's claim to the invention of the MX missile-Amtrak gag, which has since become an integral part of Op-Ed page vocabulary throughout...
...Crimson let up, allowing B.U. to reach a 7-4 advantage in the final game. But teamwork and communication paid off for Harvard as it went on an 11-3 spurt to capture the final game. It was a real team effort, with setter Margaret Cheng contributing a spike to match any made by either team's spiking specialists all evening...
Dropping behind, 4-1, early in the game, Harvard put on a brief spurt to take a 6-4 lead. The Crimson never trailed the rest...
...stickwomen played as hard as they have all season, with players diving on the astroturf to save balls from going out of bounds and knocking opponents to the ground. In one spurt up the field junior Kate Martin and freshman Andrea Mainelli put on a passing clinic, leaving their opponents standing in bewilderment...