Word: sugar
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Murphy’s body may run low on sugar occasionally, but he’s never short on adrenaline. Once proclaimed “King of the Quarterbacks” by his local newspaper during his high school playing days in Lawrence, Mass., Murphy frequently outperforms those with even the cleanest bills of health. Whatever hardships the diabetic in Murphy has encountered have usually given way to the fearless side of him, the side that literally leaps over obstacles as a hurdler for Harvard’s track teams...
...Sometimes to start the second half, he couldn’t run out with us because of his sugar levels,” remembers Chuck Adamopoulos, Murphy’s head coach at Central Catholic High School, whose wing-T offense constantly featured Murphy on QB roll-outs. “One of his teammates had it, too. Together, the two of them educated the whole team about it. It’s funny because my six-year-old son recently got diagnosed with diabetes. My wife and I didn’t panic because Niall had given...
...name is Sugar," Faber's heroine tells us, "or if it isn't, I know no better." Sugar's body is for rent, but her mind is entirely her own. Nineteen, tall and flame-haired, she's an intellectual prodigy who charms her johns with inspired conversation and uninhibited bedcraft, then scribbles away at a novel while they snooze off their drink in her bed. (Faber's descriptions of lovemaking in an age of abundant undergarments and no antiperspirants are admirably frank...
...Sugar longs to climb the well-defended ramparts of English society, and her ladder up arrives in the form of William Rackham, the dreamy, indolent heir to a perfume empire. She turns his head with her literary prattle--she's like Lolita and Humbert Humbert in one body--and he installs her in a fancy apartment. Sugar's rise is rapid, but as a great man once said, mo' money, mo' problems. On her way up she has to deal with Rackham's dysfunctional family, including his half-mad mystic wife Agnes and his devout but lustful brother Henry, while...
...SUGAR The board says added sweeteners in candy, soft drinks and pastries can constitute up to 25% of your daily caloric intake. But when everyone agrees that less is better, why encourage sweet tooths...