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Highlight Reel:1. On Brando (known as Bud as a child) and his early desire to prove everybody wrong: "Academically, he continued to lag, and various members of the faculty implied-or said outright-that he would never amount to anything. The athletic coaches disagreed: the following year Bud won letters in track and football, finished first in the school decathalon, and set a record by doing one thousand straight push-ups. He might have done more, but a teacher, worried that the youth would strain his heart, ordered him to stop...
...Kahn has also researched insulin resistance, a phenomenon that is central to Type 2 Diabetes but about which little was known in the 1970s. Kahn has devoted his career to studying the various aspects of Type 2, which represents roughly 90 percent of worldwide diabetes cases. The condition is acquired due to interaction between genes and environmental factors like obesity, and it is spreading rapidly—the annual rate of new cases in the U.S. is 9.8 per 1,000 people...
...More painful than midterms, more arduous than papers, more awkward than Freshman Week, the various elections and selections of November can be so bad that one wise upperclassman cautioned me last year: “Don’t block with people you know from your activities. By next fall, they may not be your friends...
...deadline for such actions passed six months ago •regrets about "Bring 'em on" and "Mission Accomplished" are expressed by •regrets about letting New Orleans drown, invading Iraq under false pretenses, condoning torture, ignoring global warming, scoffing at science, presiding over the collapse of the economy, and various other squanderings are not expressed...
...Your predecessors dealt with church attendance in various ways. Jimmy Carter taught Sunday school at a Baptist church in Virginia while he was President. Ronald Reagan didn't go to church at all, citing the hassle of making a church set up security screening for parishioners. The Clintons drove down the street every Sunday to Foundry United Methodist, where Chelsea sang in the youth choir. George W. Bush never became a regular member of any local church, preferring to worship most often at the chapel at Camp David...