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...have grown two orders of women and men willing to take risks and make sacrifices... Between her travels to the order's far-flung outposts, Mother Teresa rises at 4:30 a.m., prays, sings the Mass with her sister nuns, joins them for a spare meal of an egg, bread, banana and tea, then goes out into the city to work. Age and authority have not changed her; she is at ease these days with Pope and Prime Minister, but she still cleans convent toilets. She has won an array of international honors, including India's Order of the Lotus...
...with unpacking. Unloading my bags and retrieving boxes proved to be quite stressful. Getting my new computer from the TPC was a trial by fire while trying to set up my network connection bedeviled even my computer-literate dormmates. Lines at The Coop houseware store were reminiscent of Russian bread queues; the presence there of excited parents comparing different styles of ironing boards worked wonders on my homesickness. (My parents didn't trek out from California to move...
...economy, our affairs, our poor lives." He pushed himself away from the table, yanking the end of the tablecloth he had mistaken for a napkin and tucked into his trousers. As plates flew through the air and exploded on the floor all around him, a wheel of black bread bounced onto its edge and rolled slowly out the kitchen door...
...magnets, which come in all shapes, sizes and prices, have a medical history dating back centuries; Cleopatra purportedly wore one on her face to preserve her youthful appearance. Yet thanks to modern marketing techniques and such high-profile users as Irabu, biomagnets could be the hottest thing since sliced bread, which some doctors say would be just as useful affixed to the body. "This is off-the-back-of-your-medicine-wagon kind of stuff," Dr. Douglas Foulk, assistant professor of sports medicine at the University of Colorado, told the Denver Post. "We have zero evidence that [magnets] are beneficial...
...drama, before he finally put his overused .40-cal. revolver in his mouth and pulled the trigger, were rather desultory. Right after the murder of Gianni Versace on July 15, Cunanan broke into a 25-ft. sailboat docked in Miami Beach, sneaking in not only a bag of pita bread to eat but also newspapers to read, including Italy's Corriere della Sera. Cunanan, never averse to attention, could have had no doubt he was known all over the world--and wanted in the worst of ways...