Word: pulling
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...designer brooding of a Jean Michel Jarre. With his self-cut thatch of prematurely graying hair, the 28-year-old Delerm prefers casual clothes and tennis shoes, and professes to have neither a computer nor an e-mail address. Though he doesn't dress the part, Delerm can still pull in the crowds. Last month, he played a sold-out five-night stand at the famed Olympia concert hall in Paris - the ultimate badge of success in France, equivalent, in stature if not capacity, to headlining at Madison Square Garden or Wembley Stadium. He embarks on a national tour...
...arrangement pleases his wife as well. She says it underpins "my sense that I can pull off this life--job, three kids." The kids like it too, and Anya pitches in with enthusiasm. "I'll now let her chop with the sharp knife, and I won't even watch her," Stoloff says proudly. "Ilena's kind of flabbergasted...
...longer feels as if she is playing catch-up with her teammates. "As the race gets longer, women tend to do better and better," she says. "I think that has a lot to do with body fat, since women, even athletic and fit women, have more stores to pull from. Guys have about 6% body fat, while women will carry about 12%." The calculus of human exertion, however, is working against all the contestants. Adventure racers typically burn as much as 500 calories an hour, but the body running full steam can process only about 300 calories an hour. Contrary...
...going to talk down the war," says the police chief, a staunch Republican, "but I don't understand why we're spending all this money there when we're having trouble here." His idea is to raise $10,000 for new police equipment by holding a tractor pull. The last one drew spectators from seven states...
...earlier of a suspected meth dealer. "I knocked on the front door and got him coming out the back, but I realized I had my hand on my gun and was fixin' to draw down on him," says Chambliss. His deputy stopped him, but his eagerness to pull a gun shook him. It still does...