On a folding wooden chair next to her cot sits a can of sunflower seeds and a stack of crossword puzzles from a local Russian-language newspaper.

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He took out some sunflower seeds and chewed them.

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And yet, in a game where imitation is as ubiquitous as sunflower seeds in the dugout, Dickey remains the only knuckleball pitcher in baseball.

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But for most of the industry, asceticism for asceticism's sake is a thing of the past--good news for those who exercise when they want to, sleep late, lounge around their luxury suites and eat whatever they feel like--as long as it's not soup with sunflower seeds.

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