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...listen to the stories, about Ruth earing an 18-egg omlet, and the time he bellied up to Warren Harding before a game with the Senators and said "Hot as hell, ain't it, Prez?" Or how about the time Don "Perfect Game" Larsen totalled his car during spring training and Casey Stengel, when asked what Larsen was doing out at five in the morning, replied, "He went out to mail a letter." Or the time in 1977 when the Yanks almost traded Ron Guidry to the White Sox for once-and-future mediocrity Bucky Dent. Or the moron reporter...
...caught three sand traps on the first two holes. After taking a bogey on number one, his drive on the short par four second landed in the church pews of traps along the left of the fairway. He then beached his second shot as he had a fried egg lie in the greenside bunker, since the bunkers have been recently filled with finer sand. The best Himelman could manage was a double bogey...
...Miller is tracing the link between dopamine and endorphins. At M.I.T., Richard Wurtman, who is studying various neurotransmitters, notably acetylcholine, has found that their production can be increased by diet. Indeed, by upping a patient's intake of foods rich in lecithin-a precursor of acetylcholine -especially egg yolks, meat and fish, such disorders as senility, manic-depression and the loss of motor control associated with the degenerative disease Huntington's chorea, or tardive dyskinesia, can be substantially alleviated...
...television, the inexpensive kits (typical prices: $7 to $10) have been on the national market for about a year. First developed in Europe, they depend on a simple application of immunology: the interaction between the hormone HCG (for human chorionic gonadotropin), which is produced as soon as a fertilized egg imbeds itself in the wall of the womb, and the specific antibody formed-in rabbits-against it. If a reaction occurs between the urine and the kit's chemicals, the hormone is present-and so most likely is a baby...
...possibly expect to come up with the answer to the Big Bang while we are still troubled with the question of the chicken and the egg...