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Briefing
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Concussions: The danger of the game
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Column: Reclaiming the word “fat”
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Calendar: Feb. 26 to March 1
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Dieting through the ages
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Column: We need to talk about eating disorders
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Briefing “In the future, hand and foot reconstruction will see many new approaches to replace lost limbs and recover function. Both biological and technical advances can provide treatments that were unthinkable only a few years ago.” — Professor Oskar Aszmann, Director of the Christian Dopple Laboratory for Restoration of Extremity Function at the Medical University of Vienna, on the successful procedure providing amputees with mind-controlled “bionic reconstruction”
“The real stumbling block is the ethics ... Should this surgery be done at all? There are obviously going to be many people who disagree with it.” — Sergio Canavero, a surgeon on the possibility of full-body transplant procedures being possible in two years
“Our results are highly relevant and significant and will help both scientists and consumers sort through the often conflicting information currently available on the nutrient density of organic and conventional plant-based foods.” — Charles Benbrook, professor at Washington State’s University Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources on a study by Newcastle University finding organic foods are healthier than nonorganic foods
“As demanding as our perception of an ideal body type may be, we should remember that yesterday’s ideal will, without fail, evolve into something completely different tomorrow.” — Eugene Lee Yang, video producer at Buzzfeed in an interview with The Huffington Post on the video “Women’s Ideal Body Types Throughout History”
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Complications: the
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how the NFL has handled the issue and the misinformation surrounding the issue. The Daily Gamecock: Was there a single moment or certain injury to a certain player that made you realize that this concussion issue in particular needs to be investigated? D w a y n e Bray: I think you can look at any of the suicides. I think Dave Duerson was a big one, but ... I think Junior Seau was the one that resonated with most people because people d o n ’t really remember
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We live in a football-crazed nation. There’s no denying it. Earlier this month, a record-breaking 114.4 million people tuned into watch to watch Super Bowl XLIX, making it the mostwatched television program in American history. But America’s most popular sport has dealt with a bit of a crisis over the last few years as the issue of concussions and head injuries associated with playing football has come to the forefront. ESPN is one of several media outlets that has taken an interest in the matter of the issue of concussions, and Dwayne Bray is one man who knows a great deal about it. Bray serves as senior coordinating producer at ESPN and supervises the network’s Television Enterprise Reporting Unit. As a part of the University of South Carolina’s Baldwin Business and Financial Journalism Lecture Series, Bray spoke this week on the research ESPN has done on brain injuries in football,
Duerson from the ‘86 Bears, but they remember Junior Seau playing as recently as five, six years ago. So, anybody over the age of 16, 17, they remember seeing Junior Seau. So, that was the one I think prompted a bunch
of action because it was a high-profile player who had played for the Chargers and then the Patriots. He was such an outgoing guy, so I think that was the one that really caught the attention of the National Football League and most of the media. TDG: How much more physical do you think the game is now compared to what it used to be when guys like Duerson and Mike Webster, both of whom still suffered from brain injuries, played? Bray: Well, certainly the game is physical. Is it more physical? I mean, you could extrapolate that it is because the players have not gotten taller, but they’ve gotten bigger. I mean, it’s an embarrassment if you’re in the NFL and you’re not at least 300 pounds, according to some players, if you’re on the line. So, if you look at the linemen, they’re all 300 pounds, but guys like Webster, they played at 245-250. So, has it gotten more
dangerous? The players are bigger, the players are stronger and they’re lifting more. What are the reasons? I don’t know. Maybe it’s better training habits. You notice the players haven’t gotten taller. They just keep getting beefier and bigger, but they’re working out more. Some of the players back in the ‘60s, ‘70s, some of them actually had part-time jobs. These players are just full-time football players all year round.
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danger of the game TDG: Do you think that deaths like Seau’s are warning signs of more that could possibly come from players of this generation? Bray: I think it’s more of a warning sign that everyday the media gets bigger and bigger, so more people are paying attention. So, anything that happens more recently than a long time ago is going to get more attention just because everybody’s a reporter today. Everybody has an [Instagram], Twitter, on the Vine or whatever, so I think that’s part of the reason that everything is getting more attention and it’s more magnified. TDG: You’ve said the National Football League Players Association doesn’t know exactly what its stance is or what it wants regarding this issue. Why do you think they’re so conflicted? Bray: Well, I think the NFLPA is probably researching a lot of things, but with some of the issues, we oftentimes go to the league and ask questions of the NFL, but we don’t always get the same answer from the NFLPA or maybe we’re not asking the same questions. But if you look at the issue of helmet sensors, the league has decided that it’s not going to use the helmet sensors, and if you read the story, you don’t really see any comment from the NFLPA, either pushing the helmet sensors or not pushing. TDG: Do you think that the NFL has made progress in the way they approach brain injuries? Bray: Yeah, I think that one of the big things is the concussion settlement. Right now, there’s a tentative settlement. There was a class action lawsuit against the league by a bunch of former players, and I think in the past few years, especially along the times of that settlement, that the league has made a number of changes in their policies which they say are designed to improve the game and make it safer. TDG: You said that one of the bigger issues within this topic is misinformation or lack thereof. What’s maybe one or two things you think that not just the NFL, but even just football culture in general can do help make the general public aware? Bray: Well, I think the NFL has started. They have some PSAs, public service announcements. You have to hit people where they live, so you have to go to TV shows they watch or magazines they read and you’ve got to place that information there. You can’t expect people to come to find it. You’ve got to go where they’re at and make sure that they’re aware of the information. Obviously people who watch our show “Outside the Lines” or “SportsCenter” are aware of the information because we’re reporting it. But what about the parents that don’t watch those shows? What are they reading? What are they looking at? I think the NFL and even journalists have to make sure the information is getting out there, as well.
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Reclaiming the word
“fat” Ben Crawford @BENLCRAWFORD
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eing thin is a lot like being rich; neither condition guarantees happiness. In the same way, it’s surprising how happy one can be while living on a small budget or with a large waistline. Some of the happiest times of my life have been eating terrible, cheap, calorific foods in a foreign country alongside friends. “Fat” has reached the point where hearing it used shouldn’t make one shiver with contempt. It, like the pejoratives “retard” and “gay,” has been systematically taken out of polite conversation. Unlike those other words, which have been taken out for good reason, the word “fat” has been replaced by “large” and “thin” by “small,” a ridiculous change that only serves to confuse people. I remember meeting an old high school friend who greeted me with an unironic “You look smaller!” (Who does he think
I am, Mike Teavee? Post “drink-me” Alice?) This new language allows thin people to comment on someone’s weight without feeling like a bully. But the point of language isn’t to make people feel better about themselves. The point of language is to accurately convey the actual workings of the world. Like it or not, “fat,” when used to describe actual obesity, is a statement of fact. In a noble attempt to avoid using it, we make the word taboo and, therefore, much more potent when it is used to hurt others. By absenting the word from our conversation, we give it a terrible presence. If “fat” becomes commonplace, those inevitable kids in grade school that enjoy bullying others by calling them fat will have lost a word in their arsenal. By using “fat” in everyday conversation, we will have taken the word back as a description
and not an insult. It’s also important to understand that being fat doesn’t mean you’re necessarily unhealthy. While problematic in the long run, the possibility of being both healthy and obese exists. There are side-effects (you are more likely to snore), but with minimal exercise, it’s perfectly possible to live a long and prosperous life with a bunch of weight on you. To sum up, being obese is a reality. But being OK with that has everything to do with how one thinks about oneself. If you aren’t content with where you are, the road toward a typical weight is a long, hard and ultimately rewarding one. Accomplishing a bodily-related goal is worthwhile, as long as you recognize that it doesn’t necessarily define you. (Unless, of course, you want it to.) If you are content with who you are and how others see you, then eat, drink and be merry. It doesn’t get much better than that.
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Weekend Calendar: Feb. 27 to March 1 FRIDAY SWAN LAKE Koger Center for the Arts, 1051 Greene St. Fri, 7:30 p.m., $6-33 The Columbia Classical Ballet Company will perform one of the most famous classical ballet shows, “Swan Lake,” at the Koger Center Friday. BURT BACHARACH Darla Moore School of Business, 1014 Greene St. Fri, 3 p.m., Free Grammy and Academy Award-winner Burt Bacharach is coming to USC Friday to speak about his time in the music business. Bacharach is known for a variety of famous songs, such as “What’s New Pussycat?”
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THE TROJAN WOMAN USC Lab Theater, 1400 Wheat St. Thu to Sun, 8 p.m., $5 USC students are performing “The Trojan Woman,” a play that showcases the tragedy of war seen through the eyes of a woman left behind after the war is over. The show runs from Thursday to Sunday night.
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BREAD CHEWING LUCKY STRIKE GRAPEFRUIT LEMONADE THE TAPEWORM DIET CANNED BYPRODUCT JAZZERCISE BACON&EGG COTTON BALL Lois Carlisle @LOISCARLISE
We love the thought of eating healthily so much that we trick ourselves into doing it. A Diet Coke at the movie theater pairs with a large popcorn. A skinny Cinnamon Dolce Latte forgoes foam, but adds whip. A whole grain bagel wraps around jalapeno cream cheese. For every healthy choice we make, we reward ourselves with one that’s not so healthy — it’s part of a cultural diet that grew from the new millennium. But this age of paleo and veganism is just a non-GMO certified smear in the long line of diet crazes that have clutched the American
psyche for decades. Few things have been as damaging to the American populous as our image of ourselves. The need to be thin or muscular, V-shaped or waif-like comes from a history of advertising moguls and opportunistic capital ventures. Here are a few fad diets from throughout the ages just to put a little perspective on your health kick. Remember to eat well and be smart about which diets you follow. Make choices for you and not for others — not for your girlfriend or boyfriend, not for your parents, not for the bandwagon and not for the advertisement you
saw last night during “Scandal.” Make informed choices about your health for yourself.
Antebellum period Eat your bran To get to the heart of this matter we have to go all the way back to 1837, when Sylvester Graham published his “Treatise on Bread and Bread-Making.” (I’m not making this up.) At the time, dieting was less about weight loss and more about controlling one’s moral compass. Graham believed that by eating breads made from whole grains, one was better able to control sexual urges and maintain a balance of physical and spiritual health. This was not unusual for this time period. He also denounced spices and food that was “complex in preparation” because such things were believed to up a person’s carnal necessities. His recipes have been reprinted hundreds of thousands of times, but one endures today much more prominently than the others — the graham cracker. The cracker that inspires s’mores, bonfires and general merriment. I’m not sure how Graham would feel about that. Turn of the century — The Great Masticator The 1910s gave birth to a dieting fad that persists today in the form of a grade school myth. We’ve all heard that chewing your food 32 times ensures that your stomach will digest whatever you’re eating better. This, of course, is not true. Yes, chewing is important, but 32 times might be overkill. However, beginning in 1895, Horace Fletcher, an amateur nutritionist, created this rule of 32., known as “Fletcherism” which dictated that all food must be chewed and mixed with saliva until it turned to liquid. Diners would tilt their head forward while eating, chew until liquefied, then tilt their heads backward. Any food that did not slide down the throat was spit out and discarded. Fletcher believed this method prevented overeating, reduced a person’s food intake and therefore conserved money. Believe what you want, but Fletcher’s slogan beats all: “Nature will castigate those who don’t masticate.” 1920s “Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet” It was a Lucky Strike marketing campaign that aligned the notion of dieting with femininity. In 1925, George Washington Hill, president of the American Tobacco Company, launched a public relations mission to condemn the taboo against women smoking in public.
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fasting program to you, that’s because it is. Side effects included a long-term weakened immune system, heart and kidney damage, fatigue, vomiting and irritability. I’d be irritable, too, if my kidneys began to fail.
1950s The Parasite Diet It sounds gross because it is gross. A diet where you yourself are on the menu — how refreshingly backward and horrible! In 1953, opera star Maria Callas shocked the audiences by losing 80 pounds in an unusually short amount of time. Rumors began to circulate that the singer swallowed a tapeworm, and the parasitic dieting industry took off. (In reality, Callas enjoyed tartare and came by her tapeworms naturally, if that’s possible.) Health food stores began selling pills containing tapeworm eggs. Women bought them by the case, and the little pills put many in the hospital and some in the morgue. Recently, a diet pill company was taken to court for placing tapeworms in their product and not including them on the list of ingredients. But what was even worse was when deworming medication didn’t work — just to warn you, this is mortifying — doctors would coax the worms out using bowls of hot milk placed in front of a patient’s mouth. The worm would smell the milk and slither out to investigate. Doctors would pull the bowl farther and farther away until the parasite had extracted itself entirely from the host. 1960s Your meal, in a can It is, perhaps, not the best sign if the formula for your diet shake comes from a hospital kitchen. But that’s exactly what happened with Metrecal. Around 1965, Edward Mead Johnson, cofounder of Johnson & Johnson, was introduced to Sustagen, a nutritional composite blend that was spoon-fed to hospital patients incapable of eating solid foods. Johnson tried to expand the product line to include 15 flavors of shakes as well as lemon cookies, soups and canned noodles and turkey. Time Magazine asserted that, “No diet fad has ever taken the U.S. so overwhelmingly as the craze for the supplement Metrecal.” Unlike previous fads, Metrecal ads were aimed at both men and women. The difference was that this product was billed as discreet. It could be employed in the home or office; Johnson even began selling a Metrecal flask.
But the product was said only to work because it tasted like chilled engine sludge, so no one ever finished a full can. The formula never changed, so when new and improved nutritional shakes came on the market, Metrecal tanked or, rather, it canned.
1970s Your mother’s diet pills In 1976, Dr. Robert Linn introduced his book, “The Last Chance Diet: When Everything Else Has Failed” which was read by more than 2 million people. He opened weight loss clinics in Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles and counseled politicians, movie stars and reputable news reporters. Among his more notable patients was Jacqueline Onassis. This program comes in just above 1953’s tapeworm for number of dieters killed. “Last Chance” advocated for the consumption of Dr. Linn’s liquid protein composite, Prolinn. In 1978, following the receipt of more than 200 complaints and a total confirmed 58 heart attacks and 58 deaths, the FDA began an investigation into whether Prolinn, for lack of a better phrase, was legit. Upon inspection, it was discovered that Prolinn consisted of ground, traditionally inedible animal parts, including hooves, horns and tendons. Basically, all of the stuff you wouldn’t even find in a dirty water hot dog. If you’d ever thought of eating anything prepackaged again, this should put a stop to that. 1980s Short shorts and sweatbands We all know this was the age of the sweatsuit and leotard, the scrunchie and the casual running shoe. The 1980s saw the introduction of what had always existed as a method of fitness but was hardly seen as a craze until Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons broke out the glitter and little bitty shorts. I’m talking about exercise — Jazzercise, to be precise. Each session lasted 60 minutes and employed a hybrid mix of yoga, kickboxing, Latin and jazz dance, resistance training and pilates, all set to the latest and greatest Top 40 smash jams. You could do these high-energy sessions in a gym with a group or at home with the help of the newly invented and highly technological VHS tape. In a world of bodybuilding gyms, women were encouraged for the first time to participate in a public, group exercise routine. The firm persists today, despite the public notion that the program is outdated. During
their 2015 rebrand, Jazzercise adopted the slogan, “Our only throwback is our right hook,” which is a pretty catchy slogan.
1990s Bacon and eggs...and more bacon Dr. Robert Atkins created his diet plan based on the concept that if your carb intake is drastically reduced, your body’s existing fat becomes fuel. Ketones, which can be used as energy, were released as your body processed that fat. Atkins dieters are encouraged to consume red meat, fish, eggs, poultry, pork, vegetable oils and butter during the first phase (or, as I have come to call it, the Ron Swanson phase). After that, they can eat small, clean meals like nuts, legumes, berries, seeds, vegetables, wine and whole grains. The downside to Atkins is what’s known as the “Atkins Smell.” As the keytone levels in your body increase, your breath and skin take on a certain odor which Dr. Atkins claims is “not an offensive one.” Dieters have also reported feeling severe mood swings and depression during the course of both phases. To that, I employ the words of Ron Swanson: “Please refrain from discussing feelings in the vicinity of the meat.” 2000s The diet that isn’t This would be the portion of the timeline I’d call post-modern. Here, an inorganic, non-food material becomes a diet craze. For the first time, outlandish diet ideas have become their own genre on YouTube. In particular, the cotton ball diet has spurred plenty of videos, one of which has almost 140,000 views. Unlike trends of the past, this method of weight loss has no guiding principles or weeks on and off. You just eat cotton balls soaked in a coating agent like orange juice or smoothie. The idea is that the ball makes you feel full and remains in your stomach longer than foods do, decreasing your appetite. The problem with this, aside from the fact that your body isn’t getting the nutrients it needs (or any nutrients, for that matter) most cotton balls aren’t made of real cotton. They’re a polyester blend that contain synthesized chemicals which your body can’t break down. Often, the cotton balls get stuck in the intestines and require surgery to remove. Bottom line: if dogs shouldn’t eat socks, you shouldn’t eat cotton balls.
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We need to talk about eating disorders
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People love to talk about food, especially college students. But, for some reason, it’s so hard for these same people — people who will gleefully tell you about their two bagels with shmear for breakfast and their personal pizza for dinner — to talk about eating disorders. Did you cringe a little bit, reading that? Does the idea of discussing eating disorders out loud make your stomach churn? I hope it does. Because I have been living with that cringe, with that awful stomach-churning feeling, for more than three years. It has been 1,187 days since I was first able to say, out loud, that I have an eating disorder. It has been 772 days since I was hospitalized for complications with the flu and a serious kidney infection.
I have seen my best friend run herself into the ground because of her need to be thinner, to be perfect. I have seen my little brother in tears at 12 years old because he was so worried about his older sister. I have seen myself in a hospital gown, with thin cheeks and thinner wrists, because I spent months whittling away at my diet, cutting just a little bit here and just a smidge there. This week is National Eating Disorder Awareness week. According to the National Eating Disorders Association, eating disorders are incredibly complex conditions that arise not from a desperate need to be “skinny” or “pretty,” but from a combination of long-standing behavioral, biological, emotional, interpersonal, psychological and social factors. People — most commonly women — with eating disorders don’t simply want to look like
the people in magazines or on TV. The general public seems to place the blame for development of eating disorders solely on the media, and while the media certainly plays a part, it is only a fraction of the underlying circumstances that prompted the development of these disorders. Approximately 20 million women and 10 million men in the United States have suffered from a clinically significant eating disorder. However, even with these millions of cases reported, many cases go unreported. The rate of development of eating disorders has been steadily increasing since 1950, and it is very common for one or more other psychiatric disorders, such as alcohol or substance abuse or depression, to accompany eating disorders. The general unease surrounding public discussion of eating disorders has done nothing but deter sufferers
from seeking the treatment they need. Speaking from personal experience, the fact that no one was willing to even mention eating disorders just pushed me even further from seeking treatment. It took a week-long hospital stay to get me to finally consider seeking help, to finally consider the fact that, yes, maybe what I was doing was just on the side of lifethreatening — and I’m one of the lucky ones. One study spanning three decades found that people with anorexia nervosa had a death rate six times higher than that of the average population. And that’s just one eating disorder, not the numerous variants of disordered eating such as bulimia, binge eating disorder or the not-as-well-known EDNOS (eating disorder not otherwise specified). You may be thinking, “Well, that’s definitely not good, but what can I do about any of this?”
It is so simple to be part of the change in consciousness toward eating disorders that this society so desperately needs. The best and most impactful advice I can give you is to watch. I can see people all across campus with disordered e a t i n g h a b i t s . N o w, I definitely have a home-court advantage because I myself struggle with an eating disorder, but if you harbor even just a bit of concern, watch and you might be able to see something you didn’t see before. Do you have a friend who maybe doesn’t eat all that much? Come to think of it, you’ve never seen her or him eat a full, well-balanced meal around you. Or, maybe you only ever see that one friend eat huge, not-so-good-foryou meals on a regular basis. Is your roommate’s concern over how she looks just vanity, or is it something much deeper, much worse?
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N o w, m a y b e y o u ’ v e a l r e a d y identifi ed someone who has shown signs of disordered eating. Maybe you’re concerned, but you don’t know what to do. For those of you in these sometimes-uncomfortable situations, let me offer you a few quick tips on how to approach someone with an eating disorder. Not all eating disorder sufferers “look” like they have an eating disorder. Unfortunately, the public misconception that all eating disorder sufferers are emaciated skeletons is only true in the most extreme cases. Never, ever discount someone’s struggle with an eating disorder just because they don’t fi t the picture in your mind’s eye. Don’t ask someone “which” eating disorder they are struggling with. Again, the public misconception is that eating disorders are simply black and white; you have either one or the other. I cannot tell you
how often I am asked that question and how often I fume at the person asking it. It’s OK to talk about it. If someone had come up to me and asked why I didn’t eat anything at school or why I couldn’t walk around for more than 10 minutes at a time, I would have collapsed with relief. When something is on your mind 112 percent of the time and you feel like you can’t talk about it, you go a little crazy. The first time I said out loud that I had an eating disorder, I wept tears of joy just because it wasn’t strangling my mind anymore. N o w, I ’ m s p e a k i n g f r o m personal experience, not for all eating disorder sufferers. If you’re interested in learning more about eating disorders, or even if you aren’t, I urge you to visit http:// www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/. You could save someone’s life just by showing an interest.
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ACROSS 1 Geometry subject 6 Vend 10 “Don’t let anyone else hear this” 14 Cowboy, at times 15 Palm product 16 Classic creamfilled snack 17 For the birds? 18 Agile deer 19 Actor Ken 20 Stout 23 Seaside raptor 24 Have to thank for, with “to” 25 Horn sound 26 Belgrade native 28 Lawn option 29 Nova Scotia hrs. 32 Relative via remarriage 36 Shell out 37 Stout 40 Gremlin and Pacer 41 Able to come back 42 Cole Porter’s “__ Clown” 43 Bond, for one 45 “Heavens to Betsy!” 46 Place to tie up 48 “__ we having fun yet?” 49 Intractable beast 52 Stout 57 Dead set against 58 Ram, e.g. 59 Significant 60 Sax immortal Getz 61 Politico Bayh 62 Blue hue 63 Reaction to being cut off 64 Not a good mark 65 Hem again DOWN 1 Talk and talk 2 Casanova 3 For the bees 4 Tide type 5 Cubemaster Rubik 6 Milkshake choice 7 Gradually vanish 8 Cobb of “12 Angry Men” 9 Not get the better of
10 Flickr image 11 Ring insert 12 Knife in “West Side Story” 13 Shape (up) 21 Tire-shaped 22 New England catch 26 Nos. for beachgoers 27 Chemical suffix 28 Cryptozoologist’s quarry 30 Name meaning “young warrior” in Old Norse 31 Short communication 32 Work on a deck 33 Large volume 34 Yosemite attraction 35 Not a good mark 36 Crossword component 38 Rival of Rory 39 Greeting in Rio 43 When doubled, a breath freshener 44 Specialized undergrad course 47 Permanently
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48 Liam Neeson voiced him in “The Chronicles of Narnia” films 49 Like many a prime rib serving 50 One in a Lincoln quartet? 51 Scatter 52 Reason for stitches 53 “Do __ ...” 54 Late-inning achievement
55 Barbra’s “Funny Girl” co-star 56 Flabbergast
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