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When he does, people tend to listen. He played that role even in high school. Harry (the Horse) Geldien, Cheney's football coach, remembers the young man as a locker-room leader, though not the rah-rah, attention-grabbing type. "They'd be in there dressing for the game, and there was usually a lot of chattering and noise," Geldien recalls. "But when Dick started to speak, the other kids would stop and listen. They respected...
...Women tend to have to account for their time more than men do," says Elizabeth Long, a sociology professor at Rice University who has studied women's book groups. "It makes an exit more legitimate if you can say, 'I'm getting together to play bunco or bridge' rather than 'I'm going...
...Studio, which is run by a local photographer who has made it his mission to record hundreds of historic buildings before they are torn down, and the nearby Hands in Clay Pottery Studio, where local university students show off their designs. At most of these galleries, foreigners tend to be the main patrons but locals are beginning to show interest in China's contemporary offerings. Still, prices remain far lower than those in Hong Kong, London or New York City...
Norwalk-like viruses, it turns out, are extremely common--perhaps second only to cold viruses--and they tend to break out whenever people congregate in close quarters for more than two or three days. Oceangoing pleasure ships provide excellent breeding grounds, but so do schools, hotels, camps, nursing homes and hospitals. "Whenever we look for this virus," says Dr. Marc Widdowson, a CDC epidemiologist, "we find it." Just last week 100 students (of 500) at the Varsity Acres Elementary School in Calgary, Alta., stayed home sick. School prank? Hardly. The Norwalk virus had struck again...
...Satanic Verses . Bono, ever the good guy, meant the invitation as a gesture of support. To Rushdie, the moment was a revelation. He suddenly felt "what it's like to have 80,000 fans cheering you on. The audience at the average book reading is a little smaller. Girls tend not to climb on to their boyfriends' shoulders during them, and stage-diving is discouraged." Easy for him to say. If there ever were an author who knows what it's like to have multitudes cheering you on - or howling for your head - it's Rushdie. Born in India...