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...master 12-meter designer, has been gaining on Courageous (also a Stephens design) as the matches have progressed. Its San Diego-based skipper, Lowell North, 47, suffered from lack of experience in Atlantic waters during the June matchups. An expensive -and unsuccessful-experiment with new sailcloth cost North additional precious tune. Poor crew coordination and tactical blunders-committed as North turned over the helm to scamper about the deck fiddling with fittings and adjusting the rigging and sails-worsened matters...
...will be breathing down your neck to see if you're not fiddling some extra cash out." An emigrant is entitled to take his household effects, his car and about $1,600 in cash-hardly enough to start a new life in another part of the . In Salisbury precious stones are selling at three to four times their real value because they are easy to smuggle...
...explains the natural evolution of what DeVore and his colleague Joseph Popp have called "prostitution behavior" in higher species. A female chimp in estrus will use a sexual come-on to get more than her share of food. Even a very dominant male cannot afford to alienate the most precious of all resources-a willing female. Sociobiology also explains why, in most human societies, men are older than their mates: older men are more likely to control resources of value to a reproducing female. Males go along with the system because it is to their reproductive advantage to pick young...
...wanting to give too much away, I own a sedate efficient diesel sedan and retain an interest in a sports car that speaks in the hollow thunder of youth. Until recently I guided each with macho faith and precious little knowledge. After three hours of instruction, concentrated mostly on parking, I obtained a license years ago. Without further instruction, I simply drove. Most of us simply drive. We study tennis, dancing, golf. We simply drive...
...hand for what is clearly a shimmering pool of water nestled among rocks, to see reflections in the water, and then to touch sand and feel insects biting: this happened several times, as if one could never learn the lesson. It got to the point where to save precious water, I dry-washed my hands with dirt, only later to find my fingers and palms itching from infinitesimal slivers of thorns hidden in the dirt...