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...thunderbolt” is actually a lightning bolt? The cover is ambiguous in that regard, though as the author of “A Short History of Nearly Everything,” I suppose Bryson should know. Either way, it is funny to imagine the over-weight, middle-aged Bryson putting on this sweater and running around the yard pretending to be a superhero...
It’s not just at Harvard, either. College football carries little weight in the Northeast as a whole...
...never been able to completely incorporate himself into the flow of the season, as each injury has necessitated a period of reintegration.The continual breaks and fractures have no doubt been caused at least partially by the physical strictures of height, and developing his 7’0 frame through weight training has been a critical process for Cusworth. He focused on building strength intently in the off-season, in the hopes of avoiding the frustration of once again watching his teammates while sitting on the bench in street clothes.The frustration, brought on by Cusworth’s inability to stay...
...medical director Dr. Nancy Green calls a "kitchen-sink approach." Much of its focus is on the nuts and bolts of a healthy pregnancy: screening for bacterial infections, watching for signs of domestic violence, discouraging alcohol consumption, encouraging smoking cessation (1 in 4 pregnant women in Kentucky smokes), monitoring weight gain and nutritional intake and, when necessary, giving drugs to prevent preterm labor. Weekly injections of a progesterone-based drug after week 16, for example, can reduce the recurrence of premature births by one-third...
...should we give more weight to the risks of taking a positive action—in this case, consuming a potentially useful drug—than to the risks of inaction? Why is it scarier that a drug will cause us heart trouble than that not taking a targeted cancer-killer will result in our deaths? Rationally speaking, it’s not: A death from a heart attack is not much worse than a death from colon cancer. So, if I have cancer and Gleevec makes it 20 percent less likely that I will die from that cancer...