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...disease shortens breath, causes chronic coughing, renders its victims incapable of sustained physical exertion and eventually kills. Less predictably, but in tragic numbers, asbestos produces cancers of the lung, colon or stomach (TIME, Jan. 28). No level of exposure is known to be safe. Children playing around asbestos dumps, wives who wash the work clothes of their asbestos-laborer husbands and people living near asbestos factories have been affected...
Lilias recommends a 30-minute daily workout, ranging from exercises such as Chest Expander 1-3 for women (good news for husbands) to Stomach Flattener (good news for wives). She herself-a vegetable gobbler-is the proof of the non-pudding...
Roughnecks. The "volunteers" also menaced foreign correspondents and diplomats who had turned out for the show. Christopher Wren of the New York Times had his camera shoved into his face, painfully chipping a tooth; then two roughnecks held his arms while an other punched him in the stomach. Other reporters, including Lynne Olson of the Associated Press and Michael Parks of the Baltimore Sun, got similar treatment when they came to Wren's aid. While all this was going on, uniformed militiamen and KGB (secret police) agents stood by or took pictures. When the hour-long fracas was over...
...issue here is that Americans and Canadians always seem to have an excuse when they lose at their national games. Neither people can stomach the fact that foreigners work harder or that a different system of encouraging athletes to excel could be more conducive to player development...
Nonetheless, I returned to Harvard that fall and quickly befriended the resident cynics of Adams House. Our sordid late night discussions about freshman year adjustments curdled my stomach and made me yearn for the complacency of the West coast. We endlessly talked about Harvard's malignant llness and worried that we were especially susceptible to infection of the Harvard germ since we were already suffering from a mild case of Sophomore Slump. The seed of the well-known germ--ambition--could easily generate into a sick and competitive need to achieve, produce, and be known. We were depressed, felt oppressed...