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...From a vast pool of adolescent athletes emerge high school athletes, who demonstrate energy, interest, and some athletic ability...
...course, no serious researcher can believe that these developments represent anything other than a boon for academic research. Digitized books save vast amounts of time. They assist those unable to pay for travel to faraway libraries. And their text-searchability makes possible scholarship that would have been unthinkable 20 years...
...vast majority of college students seek marriage one day, but our perspectives on relationships do not always reflect this. It is as if commitment is a character trait developed instantly at the altar—once the ring is on the finger. But those of us addicted to endorphins, prone to procrastination, or disposed to overspending recognize that traits cannot apparate; they must be habituated. By trial and error, society found that cohabitation and increased number of sexual partners lead to higher divorce rates...
...first comprehensive account of this vast operation in 20 years. It's an imposing volume: Beevor, author of The Fall of Berlin 1945 and Stalingrad, deftly marshals vast tranches of information with his customary unflappability. Just crossing the English Channel involved assembling almost 5,000 vessels, the largest fleet in history. Although Beevor had access to a great deal of new material, there are no major revelations in D-Day. But it contains some surprises...
...absurd conspiracy theories involving the Japanese or suggestions of her making safe landing on some deserted island - just communication blunders and furrowed brows (a Swank specialty), and then she and the plane are gone, vanished in the typical way of small planes running out of fuel over a vast ocean. It's not even particularly sad until Nair rolls the documentary footage of the real Earhart. There, grainy and distant, is the "ghost of aviation," as Joni Mitchell called her in the 1976 song "Amelia." Earhart still has the power to haunt us, even after, as Mitchell imagined...