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Miguel has an 80.6 percent success rate with the quad. One night out of five the grip with brother Juan is not sure, fingers do not clutch wrists, and for one sickening instant Miguel drops toward the ground. The knot in your stomach rips apart, and you think that is has finally happened...
Tsongas remained on the New York ballot after he suspended his campaign on March 19. For anyone who wanted to lodge a protest vote against Clinton but couldn't stomach Brown, or vice versa, Tsongas' sober message of economic growth offered an appealing alternative. "Tsongas is Greek for 'none of the above,' " quipped political analyst Kevin Phillips. Buoyed by his showing, Tsongas weighed a possible re-entry into the race for two days before deciding to stay out. He saw no real chance of winning the nomination and refused to be a spoiler, a term that bothered Brown...
...billion bovines that roam the planet but with modern methods of mass-producing beef that include plumping animals with hormones and stuffing them with "enough grain to feed hundreds of millions of people." Although he did not personally visit a ranch or a meat-packing plant, his stomach-churning descriptions of how cattle are treated from birth to slaughter brim with righteous indignation. (A reformed carnivore, Rifkin says he swore off beef 15 years ago after taking three bites of a revolting blue-gray hamburger, then throwing the rest away...
...alcohol not only adds calories to the diet but also keeps the body from burning dietary fat properly. Booze in the bloodstream can slow down fat metabolism more than 30% -- though it speeds up the burning of carbohydrates. When fat isn't metabolized, it gets deposited on thighs, hips, stomach and other embarrassing parts of the body. So while one answer to an inappropriately bulging physique might be to give up alcohol entirely, going on the wagon is not necessarily the only solution. Another is simply to reduce the percentage of fat in the diet...
...wrong. I disagree with Buchanan's approach to politics and with many of his positions. The idea of throwing up a wall along the Mexican border to keep Latin American immigrants out of the U.S., for example, turns my stomach. I'd much rather have open borders...