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...have a little bit of pain around the ears, but I'm O.K.' MANJIT SINGH, security-company owner and amateur record breaker, after pulling a 7.4-ton, 30-seat passenger plane 3.4 m with his ears. Singh, 57, who lives in the U.K., hopes the feat will be the latest addition to the 30 world records he already holds, including one for pulling a double-decker bus by his hair...
...mouth with the over-enthusiasm of a coked-up Dallas Cowgirl. In reality I had only reached roughly page 20, where the narrator starts recounting his prostate cancer, complete with details involving impotence and adult diapers. References to elderly men’s uncontrollable bladders are a deal-breaker for me.But I know “American Pastoral” is a great book because somehow everyone around me, while still managing to maintain more activities and better grades than me, has had the time to read Philip Roth and recognize his genius. Or have they?If Frankfurt is right...
...expect high lake levels for six years and possibly even a decade more." Curtis Larsen, a U.S. Geological Survey researcher who has studied the lakes' ebb and flow dating back 7,000 years, predicts Lake Michigan may ultimately reach 585 ft., three feet above this year's record breaker. If that happens, streets would be submerged, sewer systems would be badly damaged, and tens of thousands of homes would be destroyed...
...fare as spaghetti, lobster or ribs unless you're in a specialty restaurant and your dining partners will be ordering the same. Other rules, according to the experts: Wait until everyone has been served before you start. And whatever you do, don't chew with your mouth open. Deal breaker...
...Bernie Sanders of Vermont) to 49 for the Republicans. But Democrats now fear the real possibility that Republicans will filibuster that resolution. They could insist - just as the Democrats did after the 2000 election that left the chamber evenly split, with Vice President Dick Cheney as the tie-breaker - on an "out clause" that stipulates that control of the chamber goes to them if they somehow manage to achieve a majority during the course of the session. As both sides remember, that clause came in handy for the Democrats a few months later, when Vermont's Jim Jeffords abruptly declared...