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Why the preponderance of animals over human images?

To professional athletes — when they are not on strike or locked out — and their adoring fans, there is nothing so exultant, as the chant of “We're No. 1!” American business executives are getting somewhat the same feeling. Finally, they are beating their Japanese, German, South Korean, Taiwanese, name-the-country rivals — and in products like autos, machine tools and computer chips, where a few years ago they were being trounced. The U.S. firms are not only turning back an import invasion of American markets but also triumphing in so-called third-country export markets and even swiping some sales in Japan and other tormentor countries.

A new book raises a ruckus by linking intelligence to genetics and race.

Today most heart disease is treated as though it were primarily a mechanical malfunction. Clogged arteries are either reopened with the equivalent of a plumber's snake or bypassed by vessels borrowed from other parts of the body. But while such heroic measures can relieve pain and reduce debilitating fatigue, they generally forestall death for only a few years.

…we would have to argue that these are tenable norms for…

specious declamation

If you're an inveterate coder, Debian will keep you fiddling happily for eons.

…the epitome of suburban domesticity.

Tarantino's and Bender's company is called A Band Apart, after Bande a Part (Band of Outsiders), the 1964 film about two hoods and a femme fatale that Jean-Luc Godard based on an American paperback novel. But where Godard used pulp fiction as an excuse to discuss the philosophy of the boulevards and the boudoir, Tarantino is true to the genre's moral muscularity; he's interested in the philosophy of the abattoir. His tough guys chat about life's iniquities and inequities, about hamburgers, the Bible, the ethics of foot massage, the perfidy of women. Sometimes they sound like catty old fishwives. But this is a very male form of gossip — verbal machismo. With their edgy patter, the guys test themselves, their friends, their victims …

messages on computer networks are so sloppy, meandering, puerile, ungrammatical,…

…or sundry other multilateral constructions.

…while “charm” and “strange” quarks conspire to make more exotic particles…

they [boxers] brought a desperately needed shot of Ali-style panache to the ring.

…his most vaunted exploits were exposed as largely fictitious.

She recalls her early life and her quixotic campaign for the presidency of Sex Club 101.

retinue

On his hiring from Compaq, Gawker speculated that his “unflappable demeanor may have been what sealed the deal with Jobs. ‘Steve is very focused on people he can connect to emotionally’ a recruiter present at the meeting later said.”

… transform him in the eyes of his people from a dithering cad into an unflappable semi-hero.

It works nearly like clockwork until loose cannon Waingro (Kevin Gage) kills a man. That changes the nature of the crime. The unflappable McCauley still knows exactly what are the right things to do, but it is the beginning of McCauley's problems. Later when police detective Vincent Hanna investigates the crime he finds very few clues and the biggest one is just that whoever did the crime was very, very good. But Hanna is also good.

praised him for his sang-froid.

resigned under duress.

Charles Barkley, the rambunctious Phoenix Suns basketball superstar, is planning to run for Governor of his home state of Alabama in 1996.