As a rule he was neat in his person, but now his clothes were in disorder. He looked suddenly bedraggled. I was convinced he had been drinking, and I smiled.

The lowest levels of acrylamide (338.67±9.23 μg/kg) were found in olives that were not neutralized with carbon dioxide, whereas the highest levels of acrylamide (681.60±11.36 μg/kg) were found in olives that had been neutralized for 4 hr. These results indicated that the formation of acrylamide in whole olives, as well as in olive juice, is pH dependent.

I was in the delivery room as she was born into this world, nauseated by the excitement and numb-handed from Izzy squeezing the life from my digits.

The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.