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...reform, and I want him to continue pushing it ahead," says Eric Platel, a Paris-area IT consultant who voted for Sarkozy. With more than four years remaining in his five-year mandate, Sarkozy's best chance is to renew his reformist push, wait for its benefits to blossom, and ride back up the polls...
...call them in Arabic, Issa and Miriam. Muslim women prayed at the Milk Grotto, where Mary is said to have nursed Jesus, in order to be blessed with a child. We visited the homes of our Christian friends and picnicked with them in the spring, when the apricot trees blossom on the hills. At Christmas, Muslim and Christian children would dress in their finest, most colorful clothes. There were lights everywhere; as a child, I was dazzled...
...pair them with? How do you wear them without dying? The last time I wore a scarf was in seventh grade after a particularly rough, love-lorn year. A boyfriend (who shall remain nameless) never held the door for me, and I was concerned that our romance never would blossom into actual communication. I decided to remedy my depression by dressing exactly like Sandy in “Grease,” after she gets the slut-makeover in a wild bid for attention. This choice was ill-advised, I’ll admit. There is a particularly traumatic picture...
...this year’s squad. “We’re expecting a lot, and we know he’ll deliver.” Amaker also has high hopes for Lin as they embark on their first season together. “We want him to blossom, to be a high-flyer, and we need that from him,” Amaker says. The bar has thus been raised for Lin, who averaged 4.8 points per game while shooting 41.5 percent from the floor last year and also knocked down an impressive 81.8 percent from the free...
...Humans aren't aloneIf you think it's hard to manage the birth-order issues in your family, be thankful you're not an egret or an orange blossom. Egrets are not the intellectual heavyweights of the animal kingdom-or even the bird world-but nature makes them remarkably cunning when it comes to planning their families. Like most other birds, egrets lay multiple eggs, but rather than brooding them all the same way so that the chicks emerge on more or less the same day, the mother begins incubating her first and second eggs before laying the remaining ones...