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He had reached a level of play that staggered the people who had watched him most closely over the years. Isiah Thomas, Doug Collins, and Bob Costas were broadcasting a game together that season when they concluded that they should simply stop talking about Jordan on the floor because everything he did was so good and correct and precise that nothing else could be said. It was quite possible that no one ever did anything better than Michael Jordan played basketball late in his career.
Michael Jordan
Roland Lazenby
When he reached Mao’s house in mid-morning, the chairman, very much a night person, was asleep. Mao’s bodyguard tried to block Peng. “You can’t go in there—he’s still sleeping.” “You cannot stop me,” Peng answered. “My men are dying on the battlefield. I can’t wait for him to wake up.” So Peng barged in and woke Mao and told him that they had an entirely new war on their hands. There would be no rush to Pusan, no great American retreat south. They now had to prepare for a long war, and they were going to rotate some of their troops because the kind of combat they were engaged in was exhausting to the men. That morning they agreed upon some rotation of troops, even though part of Mao, clearly dreaming different dreams from Peng and other commanders on the battlefield, still believed that the entire Korean peninsula might yet be his.
The Coldest Winter
David Halberstam
Visceral fat is different. While it might be useful as “love handles” grasped by your partner, it is also uniquely capable of triggering a universe of inflammatory phenomena. Visceral fat filling and encircling the abdomen of the wheat belly sort is a unique, twenty-four-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week metabolic factory. And what it produces is inflammatory signals and abnormal cytokines, or cell-to-cell hormone signal molecules, such as leptin, resistin, and tumor necrosis factor.4,5 The more visceral fat present, the greater the quantities of abnormal signals released into the bloodstream. All body fat is capable of producing another cytokine, adiponectin, a protective molecule that reduces risk for heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension. However, as visceral fat increases, its capacity to produce protective adiponectin diminishes (for reasons unclear).6
Wheat Belly
William Davis MD
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