Whether people go on eating till they pop, or whether they opt for the healthier, slimmer life, will have a bigger effect on the future of the species than most of the weighty decisions that governments make.
Since then T. Chambers has acquired the first name of Thomas, a slim biography and a working life that dated from 1834 to 1866.
Sociologists, anthropologists, and linguists of the ghetto had granted "Pimp" a certain ethnographic authority when it first appeared; after hip-hop became a subject of academic study, Beck's work returned to the ivory tower, appearing in cultural-studies courses and literary journals (and in Peter Muckley's 2003 book, "Iceberg Slim: The Life as Art").
A pair of slim navy life-after-denim trousers, cuffed, in a cotton-linen blend ($108), had the right blend of purpose and vanity.
Gibbs's slim volume, "The Life of Schubert," in Cambridge University Press's series Musical Lives, is therefore timely and valuable.
There was another book about ballooning that emerged this fall: Julian Barnes's elegaic, slim "Levels of Life," an essay on mortality in three parts.
Bar a slim collection of life mottos (think "Never complain. Never explain," and the notorious, "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels"), Kate Moss is hardly known for her way with words.
Faced with the choice of having your head removed with a slim chance of life, or certain death, you too would probably risk your neck.
The anatomist's knife hovers over the still-supple corpse of a young woman, her swollen womb a reminder of the slim margin between life and death, especially in the 1700s.
As for the exceedingly slim possibility for life on Mars, it means that water on the surface does not need to be stable to sculpt many of the features we see today — and it's hard to see how microbes might survive in such explosive situations.
