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...thrilled,” said sophomore second baseman Brendan Byrne, a native of Milton, Mass. “When I was looking at schools, that was a big thing baseball-wise, getting to play in Fenway Park. Every kid growing up around here, that’s their dream—to hit a ball off the Green Monster...
...think he just sees Harvard as a big challenge for him, research-wise,” he said...
...even the 1983 Metropolitan Life table too lenient. Obesity researchers at the National Institutes of Health say that weights 20% higher than the Metropolitan midpoints are hazardous. Says Dr. Robert F. Kushner, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago: "We don't have anything to gain health-wise by allowing elderly patients to put on another 20 to 30 Ibs., because it's likely it will be fat tissue...
...Wise people do not discuss sex or money, and a new survey shows why. MONEY magazine polled a national sample of 2,491 adults, all of whom described themselves as the main financial decision makers in their households. Sixty-three percent of the respondents were men; 37% were women. Among the findings: 51% of the women polled said they think about money more often than sex, in contrast to only 27% of the men. One sobering statistic: nearly one-third of all women said they enjoy money more than sex; a mere 26% favored sex. Men had decidedly different priorities...
...should cross-fertilize. Besides, he is striking a blow against the "reactionary and racist" music business. Objectively, it has never seemed a dangerous hotbed of those sentiments, but the man's heart is in the right place. Just watch him being loyal, trustworthy, gutsy and modest. Also creative, wise and sensitive. One could almost imagine Mother Teresa sitting in for a set. But Michael Apted's documentary is lively and well made and has a saving sense of humor. If Sting is only half as good as the movie makes him out to be, that may still be enough...