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...Howard is not all abstract words. He balances his sterile language by staging sensual, mid-life forays with thinner women, whose simple lives Smith seems to despise...
...result is something that looks less like a music player than like the remote control for a music player. The Nano is thinner than a pencil and lighter than two bucks in quarters. It's one-fifth the size of the original iPod that Apple introduced four years ago. It has 4 GB of memory, enough to hold 1,000 songs, and it displays album art and photographs. And as small as it is, the Nano's got some audio oomph: this mouse can roar...
...city--not just shanties but mansions, not just the morgue but the Southern Yacht Club--aren't salvageable. They all sit in what is called "floodwater" but is really a solution of oil, feces, battery acid, human and animal rot, burst containers of bug spray and paint thinner and nail polish and antifreeze. The primary sensory experience of New Orleans now is the smell, a gagging foulness of the charnel, of the hundreds of bloated fish pooled in the 17th Street Canal and a million other nasty things floating everywhere. The masterless dogs are so hungry and delirious...
...systematic about your physical routine. Grace and bursts of speed don't come quite as naturally as they once did. Women in particular need to focus on strength training--two to three times a week--in order to build muscle mass and preserve bone, which otherwise begins to get thinner. Make aerobic activity a daily routine, and if you haven't already, be sure to include stretching, flexibility and balance exercises in your regimen. This is the time when many runners, soccer players and racquetball enthusiasts start the switch to biking, rowing, figure skating or cross-country skiing...
Another student asked her advice on condom brands, and Ficker suggested using Japanese condoms because they are thinner and safer...