[…]The Top's not a lifer; he's a career Marine. Lifers are a breed. A lifer is anybody who abuses authority he doesn't deserve to have. There are plenty of civilian lifers.

Some of the results resemble haikus.

The baby carrot as we know it is the brainchild of California farmer Mike Yurosek. Watching as much as 70 percent of his carrot crop go into the waste heap of his Bakersfield packing plant, Yurosek figured out how to factory-whittle the ungainly rejects into the orange missiles that we now call baby carrots. […] Presto—the Baby Carrot, which now dominates supermarket carrot sales. Its arrival has cut down agricultural waste, but it has added more packaging, along with extra cost to the consumer. Baby carrots like to congregate in children's lunch boxes—where, however, they are often delivered stillborn straight to the trash.

There were dozens of girls there - girls on the deck in bathing suits, most of them Speedos because they were racing.