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...changing and conflicting information? Evidence strongly indicates a longer disease-free life-span with sustained independence in women on estrogen-replacement therapy compared with those who do not take estrogen. It seems there is an egg-size risk (breast cancer, uterine cancer) compared with a watermelon-size benefit (less heart disease, less disabling osteoporosis). One should never take a medication that has theoretical benefit in the future if it decreases the quality of life in the present. But seeing a hunched-over, frail woman shuffling behind a walker has to stir the thought, What would her life be like...
Until then, I'll stick to cow tipping and watermelon seed spitting...
...down to the Druid for a beer after work. I go to Studio Pizza for lunch in case I get sick of eating barbecue. If I run out of watermelon, Sandy's [a Portuguese grocery store] has it," Goodman explains. "There's just so much here readily available for you, If I want to get my car fixed I just send some barbecue to the shop across the street and they cut me a deal on my brakes...
...PITCHING STINKS. "It's just bad pitches," says White Sox coach Jackie Brown. "A bad pitch is one in the middle of the strike zone," where the ball looks like a watermelon and the bat feels like a magic wand. In '94, entire pitching staffs are lobbing large fruit: the Minnesota Twins and Oakland A's + have earned-run averages near 6.00 -- an excellent mark for figure skaters, a pathetic one for hurlers. Yet the good pitchers are as dominating as ever. And the best, Atlanta's Gregg Maddux, is allowing a miserly 1.34 earned runs per game...
This does not speak, however, to the unforced skill with which the star manipulates his 52 assistants. A masterly marksman, he can scale an ordinary playing card across the stage with such force that it pierces a watermelon, and can rocket a card to decapitate a plastic duck. He can make a card rise from the deck as if by levitation, or tear one up and make it reappear whole. In Jay's supple hands, what is commonly known as a card trick is something approaching art. To watch him work a deck is to see him write haiku...