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...sport is a little different from football or basketball, there isn't any luck involved time is time, a breaststroker is a breaststroker and if we don't I have one it stands out like a sore thumb. We don't really stand a chance against Harvard he said today before the meet...
...streaked boulevards of Santiago and into the American embassy's labyrinth of red-white-and-blue tape. There they confront the anesthetizing smile of Nixonian bureaucracy. It is also the place where the movie begins lumbering to a halt, elaborating the obvious with political ironies that stick their thumb in the viewer's eye. A story that could have made for a brisk jeremiad on 60 Minutes is stretched to 122 minutes of heroes fuming and villains purring their oleaginous apologies. Spacek and Lemmon, an appealing sweet-and-sour combo, sink in the swamp of good intentions. Perhaps...
...most of the poor can watch television dreams, the struggle for survival which engages most of humanity can be less squarely faced. Accordingly, boredom, especially the middle class Roman kind which languidly consumers grapes, sets in. Its 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 colorful combinations provide relief. National thumb-twiddling now has direction. Like magpies lining their nest with shiny paperclips and fragments of colored glass, we rushed out to buy several million cubes last year...
Doctors have long known that overweight increases the risk of diabetes. The rule of thumb is that the risk doubles for each additional 20 lbs. of flab. Kissebah hopes his study will refine the rule. About 40% of American women are overweight, he points out, but only a quarter of that group have upper-body obesity. Such women, he suggests, should all be tested for diabetes and strongly urged to reduce. Diabetic tendencies and symptoms can often be effectively controlled or even eliminated by proper diet and weight loss alone...
Gould was recently honored with a no-strings grant for $200,000 over the next five years by the MacArthur Foundation. One of his earlier books, "The Panda's Thumb," won an American Book Award for science...