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...lowly private in 1965 but became an artillery officer two years later. In Vietnam, he spent much of his time out in front of U.S. ground troops with the 9th Infantry Division, directing artillery fire onto enemy positions. Franks was wounded three times, at least once seriously. His legs bear the scars, but the details are sketchy because Franks, like a lot of other veterans of that war, wants them that way. Several officers who have been close to him for years report that they have never heard him talk about it. His official biography states only that...
...recent proposal by the board to make significant repairs on the building has elicited mostly ambivalence from residents, who have lived with the problems for years and who would have to bear the financial brunt of any renovations...
...Bear with this daydream for a moment: Instead of taking classes, I would be poring through well-thumbed novels acquired steadily through the years—even children’s books, although I’ve always despised that term which seems to trivialize all those well-loved, dog-eared copies of novels I’ve grown up with and come back to. Kay Thompson’s
...exhaustible resource that operates like a well: it is emptied with use and refilled with rest. To test this theory, Baumeister gave subjects a variety of exercises designed to tax their self-control. In one of them, a group was asked to refrain from thinking about a white bear (not an easy thing to do once the idea has been planted in your mind). The other participants were allowed to let their thoughts wander. Afterward, both groups were given tricky anagrams to solve. The white-bear folks gave up much faster than the free thinkers, suggesting that the former...
...Bear Trap...