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...inescapable - as is my boyfriend?s undisguised glee. Thursday night, Bonds hit his 60th, on pace to meet, or even break McGwire?s record. As Ed watched SportsCenter and I sat nearby reading, Bonds? season in homeruns played across the screen. "Will you look at that," Ed murmured in wonder. "That?s something else." I glanced up, distracted by the swelling, Roy Hobbs-esque music, and saw Bonds rip another homer...
...wonder. On the camel caravan, Adam and the men wake at 3am and begin walking at just after 4. They eat breakfast on foot; Adam races between the walking men serving tea and a porridge made of dates, millet and goat's cheese. They walk until 10am, and then ride through the heat of the day, then stop as the sun sets and feed the camels before eating their own meal, usually more porridge or dried fruit. "The worst thing is when you run out of pasture and the animals get tired," says Adam's uncle, Ebuche Saghdou, who made...
...Pessimists, of course, will look at that theory and wonder where that nascent recovery has been hiding. If unemployment rises sharpest after the slowdown is done, say the bears, then it follows that this round of upticks is only a prelude to a very ugly second wave of layoffs, when companies find out this winter that consumer demand just ain?t what it was in all spring...
...other day, Dowd went into her ghastly "us-girls-dishing" mode, in which she talked about "guys trapped in their tiresome libidos." Dowd in the us-girls mode sometimes mentions "my girlfriend." I wonder if the Times' op-ed page, which once took itself so seriously, would publish a male columnist who wrote about gals trapped in their tiresome sex drives, and described going shopping with "my boyfriend...
...perfectly happy to accept the fact that Rome was not built in a day. So why, scientists wonder, do we cling so desperately to the idea that stem cell miracles are just around the corner...