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Jeanne Marie Laskas
Jeanne Marie Laskas
American Writer
About First Life Made People You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole! Jeanne Marie Laskas
Good Mom You Live Digging Neighbors Darn He Like Look Bed Dole Tulip Curse Door Pack Rabid Bob Next Next Door Your Used Barking Dad Now
Seagulls are a landfill nuisance because they fly away with food scraps and, as is their reputation, fight each other over them midflight, often losing them, and soon a lady has a half-eaten hamburger splashing into her backyard pool. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Food Fight Losing Fly Pool Reputation Other Backyard Soon Over Because Hamburger Scraps Often Lady Them Landfill Seagull Each Away Her Nuisance
Getting Richard Norris his new face wasn't easy. For starters, doctors needed a donor who wasn't just a favorable blood match but also had the proper skeletal features and skin color - they calculated only a 14 percent chance they'd find one. Then there was the epic surgery that took a team of 150 people. Jeanne Marie Laskas
People Face Doctors Skin Took Favorable Easy Find Percent Proper Only Features Color Had New Calculated Also Match Surgery His Blood Getting Donor Just Epic Richard Then Skin Color Team Who Starters Chance Needed
In the early 16th century the Italian physician Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, a pioneer in the science of anatomy, came up with the idea that perhaps 'brain commotion' was caused by the thrust of the soft structure of the brain against the solid case of the skull. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Science Physician Anatomy Solid Case Structure Thrust Idea Perhaps Came Caused Italian Brain Up Pioneer Against Century Skull Early Soft
When people spot Fallon in public, they do not shriek or drool or go wobbly in the knees. It's a different look entirely. A tilt of the head, mouth agape, eyebrows rolled like you do when you see a puppy. Jeanne Marie Laskas
You People Mouth Eyebrows Puppy See Entirely Knees Head Drool Like Look Spot Tilt Wobbly Go Different Public
The last time Congress seriously addressed the notion of creating a way to keep track of America's guns was 1968. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Time Seriously Congress Way Guns Track America Creating Notion Keep Last Last Time
The 'modern' air-traffic-control system, and the FAA itself, was created in the aftermath of one of the most dramatic commercial midair bashes, way back in 1956. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Dramatic Back Way System Most Itself Commercial Modern Aftermath Created
The brain is suspended in a kind of thick jelly inside the skull, and a helmet can't keep it from sloshing around. If you hit your head hard enough, the brain goes bashing against the walls of the skull. Jeanne Marie Laskas
You Walls Enough Kind Inside Head Around Brain Hit Goes Suspended Against Your Hard Helmet Skull Jelly Keep Thick
Every vice president since Mondale has lived up on this hill, on the twelve-acre campus of the Naval Observatory in Northwest Washington. It's a pretty house with a wraparound porch and a white turret. Jeanne Marie Laskas
White Every President Pretty Observatory Since Hill House Up Campus Northwest Vice Vice President Naval Washington Lived Porch
Fallon tells me about first starting 'Late Night': how he knew audiences were dubious. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Me First Late Late-Night Tells About He Knew Dubious How Audiences Were Night Starting
Almost as soon as it aired, 'Late Night' became one of the most buzzed-about shows on television. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Late Late-Night Television Almost Soon Most Became Shows Night
In the Dobbsian view of America, the mainstream media isn't evil because it's liberal but because it's lazy. And Washington is utterly corrupt, has sold out, Democrats and Republicans alike. And corporate America is an insatiable pig. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Evil Liberal Corporate Sold Corporate America Alike Insatiable Out Corrupt Lazy Mainstream Mainstream Media Pig Because Democrats Democrats And Republicans America Republicans View Washington Media Utterly
You can't think 'Dole' without thinking 'Bob Dole' and cartoons and third-person good times. He was one of those politicians: the kind you jabbed but were happy enough to have around. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Good You Happy Politicians Think Thinking Enough Those Kind Cartoons Good Times He Around Without Dole Were Times Bob
Bob Dole is not a romantic, at least not an immediate one. Bob Dole is not one to waste a lot of time on metaphor. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Time Immediate Metaphor Least Dole Lot Romantic Bob Waste
In the summer of 2007, Roger Goodell, the new NFL commissioner, convened a meeting in Chicago for the first league-wide concussion summit. All thirty-two teams were ordered to send doctors and trainers to the meeting. Jeanne Marie Laskas
First Doctors Meeting Summer Summit New Were Chicago Roger Trainers Commissioner Send Ordered Teams
Dead at 50. Mike Webster! Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. 'Iron Mike,' legendary Steelers center for fifteen seasons. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Webster Dead Bowler Hall Iron Pro Legendary Center Fifteen Mike Seasons
Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Made National Before Sister State Out Excelled Like Mississippi She Him His Cameroon National Team Soccer Team Played Started Playing
'The melancholy of all things done' is the way Buzz once described his complete mental breakdown after returning from the moon. Booze. A couple of divorces. A psych ward. Broke. At one point he was selling cars. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Car Moon Complete Once Melancholy Way Broke Booze All Things Mental Point He Divorces Couple Returning His Selling Done After Breakdown Ward Things Buzz
By 2012, Dan Gilbert was well over his LeBron James-abandonment hissy fit. He opened Cleveland's first casino, with 1,900 slot machines and eighty-nine table games. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Casino First Dan Machines Gilbert Slot Table He Opened Over Cleveland Well LeBron His Fit Games
The LeBron 11, for $200, has hyperposite construction - a combination of Foamposite material and performance synthetics - and a new layer of Lunarlon cushioning; and anyway, Nike generates about $300 million off the sneakers. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Construction Nike About Layer Performance Combination New Material LeBron Off Sneakers Anyway Million
Pearl Harbor? Michael Bay doing a movie about the single most devastating, most holy day in United States military history? Why, that's like the Three Stooges doing a Holocaust movie. Or Barney doing 'Hamlet'. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Day History Three Single Military States Bay About Devastating Like Most Doing Hamlet Michael Stooges Movie Holocaust Holy Harbor Barney United Why United States United States Military Pearl Pearl Harbor
There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Work Police Crime Gun Thanks Virginia Lobby Way Telling Detective Guns Only Computers Absurdly How West West Virginia Antiquated America Gets Owner Where Place Turn Agency Used Help Illegal Connect Many Cops
Jim Udinski has been coaching in the league for the past fourteen years, and his Division II team, the Lenape Valley Indians from suburban Philadelphia, has already made history - twice. Jeanne Marie Laskas
History Made Past Jim Valley Has-Been Indians Division League Been His Years Suburban Coaching Team Twice Fourteen Philadelphia
Contrary to popular mythology, not all NFL cheerleaders are bimbos or strippers or bored pretty girls looking to get rich. The Ben-Gals offer proof. Neither a bimbo nor a stripper nor a bored pretty girl would survive the rigorous life of a Ben-Gal. The Ben-Gals all have jobs or school or both. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Life School Girl Pretty Girl Looking Rich Jobs Neither Rigorous Would Bored Pretty Proof Pretty Girls Both Mythology Cheerleaders Nor Contrary Offer Survive Get Popular Bimbo
People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-Gal is paid seventy-five bucks per game. That is correct: seventy-five bucks for each of ten home games. The grand cash total per season does not keep most of them flush in hair spray, let alone gas money to and from practice. Jeanne Marie Laskas
Life Alone Good Home Game People Money Hair Practice Assume Good Life Distance Flush Correct Total Some Per Cash Ten Bucks Most Cheerleaders Within Does Spray Grand Them Paid Games Each Keep Season Gas Vague
People assume cheering in the NFL is mostly about a girl trying to snag herself a big, beefy, stinkin' rich football player. That is not the case. Jeanne Marie Laskas
People Girl Big Rich Assume Herself About Case Football Football Player Cheering Mostly Trying Player
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