Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their skin is checked. The aides take measurements of each child. If he or she is too small, it can be a sign of chronic malnourishment. Danish Nutritionist Birthe Pedersen, who works for the International Committee of the Red Cross, is measuring an eight-year-old boy. The upper part of his sticklike arm is 9.8 cm around; a normal child's arm is about 15 cm. After the boy walks away, Pedersen looks grim. "He will not live very long," she says...
...boyfriends, more than are hurt in auto accidents, rapes or muggings. The FBI says that every four days a woman is beaten to death by a man she knows well. Despite comfortable stereotypes, the victims are hardly limited to uneducated or disadvantaged women. Many are from society's upper echelons. At least 10% of professional men beat their wives. One well-to-do victim: Charlotte Fedders, author of the recently published Shattered Dreams (Harper & Row; $17.95). Her book is a harrowing account of her 17-year marriage to John Fedders, a former Securities and Exchange Commission official...
...character of 18 year-old Guy Bennett (Jason Tomarken) is at the center of the drama, which takes place in pre-war Britain. A scion of the upper class, Bennett is obsessed with becoming a member of the elitist "Twenty-Two" Club, which will hopefully open all the right doors for him after graduation...
...faced seven shots--allowing five, saving one, and seeing one deflect off the right post. He also blocked San Diego St.'s third penalty-kick attempt, but Aztec Gerardo Jiminez was given a second attempt when Hall was called for moving too early. Jiminez netted the ball in the upper center on try number...
...this banging on the garden door. There she was, in a babushka and no shoes, saying, 'Young man, I cannot sleep with the noise you're making.' Now she and my houseman, Lou Vargas, swap recipes, and she brings him vegetables from the country." After renting the house's upper floors to friends for years, Sondheim has expanded, allotting himself an office, a studio with a piano and an exercise room, where he cycles 40 minutes a day while watching old movies to avert a repetition of the mild heart attack that stunned him in 1979. Once a little pudgy...