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...supply: a liter of milk each day, lots of meat, fruit, vegetables, vitamins and minerals. Several months later I was able to stop using the orthopedic devices. I began to walk between the parallel bars, lurching and staggering at first, then moving with more confidence. I was able to squat down and run in place, but I was still unable to walk without holding on to the parallel bars. I tended to reel off sideways, the result of having remained too long in an enclosed space. (After we had spent a few years in small cells in the Boniato prison...
...complex near Atlanta belies its importance. Its headquarters are located in a squat suburban brick building, graced in front by a bust of Hygeia, the Greek goddess of health. Some sections are housed in wooden barracks around a former Army hospital. The agency, then known as Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA), was created in 1942 to find ways to protect U.S. soldiers against malaria. The organization has since taken part in the successful campaign against polio (by pioneering the use of the Salk vaccine), and lessened the threat of rabies (by showing it could be carried by bats...
Farmers need seasons. In a lovely, squat little verse to the month of March, A.E. Housman wrote: "So braver notes the stormcock sings/ To start the rusted wheel of things,/ And brutes in field and brutes in pen/ Leap that the world goes round again...
...practical. The Voyager/Caravan will combine the were boxy rump of a van with the the truncated front end of a car. Known in automotive circles as a minivan, it was designed for people who want something smaller than a van make and bigger than a station wagon. Though comparatively squat nomads (more than a foot less in height than most vans) , it can carry a load of 1,200 lbs., only 100 lbs. less than standard models. If used to cart people, the minivan seats seven, one more than a typical station wagon...
...squat, mustard-colored building known as Bannon Street sits on a bend in the road, framed by railroad tracks, warehouses and an industrial park. Inside, the mood is as grim as the dull yellow walls. Rows of double bunk beds line the dormitories. "This reminds me of Dickens," grumbles Resident David Erickson, 33, an unemployed carpet layer. Indeed, Sacramento County in northern California has borrowed a page from the English novelist and revived a 19th century solution to economic hard times: the poorhouse...