Word: switchings
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...stubbed my toe on the same foot that I hurt last month when I accidentally slipped in the bathtub after I got soap in my eyes trying to wash out the bird poo that my brother's cockatoo ..." This is Leonardo's defining moment. He decides to switch to something he can be good at: being a friend. Willems, who wrote for Sesame Street, works in a large format and makes striking use of blank space. But there is nothing empty about his sentiments...
...host to more than 60 fund raisers for members of Congress and often neglected to send a bill. At the lobbyist's delicatessen Stacks, Abramoff even named a sandwich after Congressman Eric Cantor at a $500-a-plate fund raiser in January 2003. (Cantor later asked the deli to switch his namesake sandwich from tuna to roast beef on challah, "a deli special that exudes Jewish power," wrote the Jewish newspaper the Forward...
...turn, I'm heading for the Bridge, flying under 50 feet, the plane is vibrating, the ground-proximity radar is going off. I'm trying to keep the whole thing above the water. And I did! It was exhilarating." After a long, deep laugh, he pauses. He flicks the switch from nostalgia to cold reality. "I'm probably crazy thinking I can make this thing work. But I can't afford to fail. I'm not just going to walk away...
...succeeds largely because the characters are so gosh darn easy to like. “Rent”’s characters make the movie work. But they are compelling because the audience can recognize them. They look, sound, and feel like us. They read social theory. They switch from grunge clothes to knit sweaters for funerals and weddings. One of the main character’s mom calls to remind him not to leave the hot plate on. “Rent”’s setting may be Alphabet City, but most of its main...
...deteriorating; the Yale Schools of Public Health and Medicine predicted that the number of deaths due to diabetes each year in the U.S. could triple, to 622,000, by 2025. One way to reduce the risk, according to a 12-year study of milk-drinking men, is to switch to low- or nonfat dairy products. Another is to stay below a body mass index of 30; exceeding that number can almost double a man's chances of developing diabetes, according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Meanwhile, the FDA approved the smallest diabetes testing system available, Sidekick, to join...