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...million Viewers of amateur singing contest American Idol during the same time slot...
Before her husband was taken by a crocodile, amateur naturalist Glenda Jefferies very likely filmed his killer. From the banks of the Normanby River, on Australia's remote Cape York Peninsula, she and husband Barry frequently videotaped the large saltwater crocodiles that prowl the waterways of Lakefield National Park. Last August, on one of their regular expeditions, Glenda dropped a lens cap into the water. As she retrieved it, a large crocodile approached. Police believe that later that day, as the couple ventured out in a small canoe to fish in the river, the same reptile appeared again. Barry...
Theorizers, both professional and amateur, think the western helps people to get away from the complexities of modern life and back to the "restful absolutes" of the past ... In the cowboy's world, justice is the result of direct action, not of elaborate legality. A man's fate depends on his own choices and capacities, not on the vast impersonal forces of society or science. His motives are clearly this or that, unsullied by psychologizing (except, of course, in the Freudian frontier yarns). Moreover a man cannot be hagridden; if he wants to get away from women, there...
According to Johnson, achieving that peace is the key to avoiding a full-fledged slump. A slump?that downward spiral that only gets worse the harder you try?is familiar to even amateur athletes. For golfers, it can start with the yips, an uncontrollable twitch of the arm or an involuntary snap of the wrist at just the wrong moment. For a pitcher, it's the strike zone over home plate that suddenly begins to jump around. For the basketball player, it's the hoop that has inexplicably shrunk...
...every corner of the globe and every nation on Earth. She will face the very best competition her sport has to offer as the Americans seek to reclaim the top spot on the medal stand from Canada. And above all, she will embody the essence of the Games: an amateur athlete cooperating and participating among her international peers, striving to fulfill the Olympic motto and ideal of “swifter, higher, stronger.”As we embark upon this New Year, there are many easy opportunities for pessimism and skepticism.The situation in Israel, with the impending passing...