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...EVEN cooler, Miami night. Cars slither up and down Collins Avenue, making those whoosh sounds that cars seem to make only when there is a beach nearby. Inside, big flower arrangements, place-cards, mounds of chicken liver, egg rolls, glasses clinking, uncles running around flashing Instamaties, loud laughter, embraces...
Died. Constantin Tsaldaris, 86, Greece's first elected Prime Minister after World War II; of liver cirrhosis; in Athens. During the Communist rebellion of 1947, he voluntarily stepped down as Premier to assist in the formation of a broad centrist coalition, but stayed on at the Foreign Ministry, where he was instrumental in bringing King George II back from exile and negotiating with the Truman Administration for the massive military and economic aid that was to end the revolt...
...killer-be erased. Jack, Stowell believes, was certified insane and was quietly placed in a private mental home -although he later escaped and committed his last and most horrible murder, that of a prostitute named Mary Jane Kelly. He cut her throat, obliterated her face, removed her liver, heart and uterus, and hung pieces of her flesh from nails on a nearby wall. Stowell suggests that Jack learned his skills "on the family estate in Scotland," where he stalked deer and watched carcasses being eviscerated and dressed...
...these are excellent sports in their ways, but to the average American they bear about the same satisfying relationship to real football as chopped liver does to rare sirloin, or 3.2 beer to a belt of bourbon. Real football, for nine out of ten, is the pro variety. High school football is nice, if you enjoy seeing beardless adolescents trying to cripple each other. College football can be fun-picnics on the tailgate, and lots of juiced-up nostalgia -but the game itself is static, sloppy and full of mistakes. No. For the true fan, only the pro game will...
...energy, it was Leloir who realized in the late 1940s that there was an undiscovered missing link in these vital reactions: organic compounds called sugar nucleotides. Leloir also showed how one of the more complex body sugars, glycogen, is synthesized with the help of sugar nucleotides, stored in the liver and muscles and then made available on demand to produce simpler glucose whenever the body needs energy...