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Steve's ice cream is less gooey than Herrell's,and is thicker and harder--spoonbreaking hard, asone of our reviewers discovered. Although some ofthe flavors were disappointingly icy, most had asurprisingly balanced taste--neither too strongnor too weak...
...find a proposal that does not have the widest audience . . . we just can't afford to fund that." At a May conference at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art she declared that, despite the acrid controversy over NEA policy in the arts community, "blood is thicker than water, and we have to stick together to save the NEA." This seems bound to translate into more conservative, "mainstream" funding policy, although 97 out of 100 NEA grants go to projects that have nothing to do with what is vaguely called "the cutting edge" of culture...
COPS SHOULD HAVE SKINS THICKER THAN AN ELEphant's hide. After all, each day they confront life's most horrible scenery, from murder to mayhem. But San Francisco police chief Richard Hongisto's thin skin got him canned last week because he allegedly couldn't stand the sight of a gay newspaper that blasted | his handling of the protests that erupted in San Francisco following the Rodney King verdict in the suburbs of Los Angeles. So he reportedly ordered some officers to strip them off the racks...
Soon he was playing command performances forthe other students. "The whole class would say'Get up Raul,' and with an even thicker accentthan I have now, I would say 'Out, out, briefcandle," said Julia, smiling...
...UCLA decided to try to circumvent some of these problems by obtaining brain scans from live, apparently healthy people. In their investigation of 146 subjects, published in April, they confirmed that parts of the corpus callosum were up to 23% wider in women than in men. They also measured thicker connections between the two hemispheres in other parts of women's brains...