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Something in the Air Viruses like influenza have only about a week to proliferate before the host kills them or, in extreme cases, they kill the host. During this contagious period there may be a

The female of the species is more deadly than the male (Rudyard Kipling, poem) You may have heard, mainly because Frank and I keep on mentioning it, that they've now published a book of these My Word

Harry Warren A major example of a typical Hollywood songwriter was the prolific Harry Warren, who was always defined as "a Hollywood movie songwriter." Warren lived from 1893 to 1981, and thus he was

The West Virginia Senate has a message for nearby Frederick County, Va. - join us. In the Civil War, West Virginia broke off from Virginia to join the Union. Now a West Virginia senator says he thinks

At the later talent shows, perhaps because he had more time to extend himself and perhaps because he drew on his recent work with the Youth Theater Guild, Richard started taking on characters more

During my childhood, a neighbor had a little china plate hanging in the living room that read "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no sense in making a fool of yourself."

Purple Death What started for millions around the globe as muscle aches and a fever ended days later with many victims bleeding from their nostrils, ears, and eye sockets. Some bled inside their

Allons enfants de la Patrie (Rouget de Lisle - 'La Marseillaise') I had this nasty experience a year ago in a trousers shop. It was just off the Kensington High Street. It was a modern shop, which I

Even as he kept working on the second-act Anatevka extravaganza, Robbins was quietly preparing what no one dreamed the show needed: another first-act dance number. The wedding celebration featured

Being a high school football hero was heady stuff for young Pollard, but his life was not all touchdowns and glory. As one of the few black players in the Chicago interscholastic league, he received

Though there had been some restrictions imposed by Congress, there were ways to skirt the new laws. "We can't allow companies to just keep inverting out of the United States. It's just bad. It's

Currently in humans, H5Nl is good at killing, but not at spreading. ?There are three essential conditions necessary to produce a pandemic. First, a new virus must arise from an animal reservoir,

The cast, on the other hand, was in a shambles - actors sick, dancers injured, everyone in a state of advanced exhaustion. But from their point of view, Robbins was faring even worse: he was "having

A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou Omar Khayyam - 'Rubaiyat' ? I've been asked by the vicar to give some advice about young men about to be married. ? Now in 1848 Punch's advice to young

A second can mean so much in football. At Saturday's Iron Bowl, the first half seemed like it was over, then officials put a second back on the clock. Auburn used that second to kick a field goal, and

Richard Pryor on Jesus: ? Man, I know Jesus. Shit, he lived over there in the projects. Nigger ain't shit. I knew the boy's mama personally. That's right - Mary. The girl with big titties. Pretty

He was frustrated by the amateur code which mandated that college athletes should play for no pay. Coach Bill Sprackling, who held a full-time job at the Collier Wire Company in Providence, later

In August 2010, six years before taking over Donald Trump's winning presidential campaign, Steve Bannon, then 57 and a producer of right-wing political films, answered his phone. "What are you doing

Coming events cast their shadows before (proverb) ? That phrase, word for word, exactly as you heard it, without one syllable altered or twisted, that phrase was the scathing retort I made, at

If there was an award for thinking on the fly, it should absolutely go to a German driver who was on the autobahn last week when he noticed that his car smelled weird. He pulled over, popped the hood,