Word: confrontational
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Except in my high school. At my high school, we knew how to confront disaster! One bright spring day, we all filed out to the football field after school. A teacher had placed fluorescent cones from the field house in a big rectangle to represent Colorado. (In retrospect, it seems fortunate that the tragedy did not occur in, say, Hawaii.) We all jostled into the outline. Taking direction from someone standing in the bleachers, a group of athletes in bright-red varsity jackets clustered in a heart shape in the center of the crowd. They were supposed to represent...
...quarter of a percentage point amid mixed signals on the economy. Growth is relatively robust, despite high energy prices, fears of a housing bubble and spots of stubborn unemployment. This time Greenspan was betting not just that the good news would prevail but also that America might soon confront the risk of renewed inflation. Greenspan is fond of noting that his job involves the study of how human beings react to a continually changing economy. "If we judge that current conditions are similar to particular historic circumstances," he says, "then we can expect a similar result and, with some range...
...Columbia Journalism Review recently noted that neither candidate has been particularly eager to confront the hard facts of energy policy this election season. No surprise there. But at least one thing’s for sure: Until we get serious about energy independence, American foreign policy in the Middle East will continue to be hamstrung at a time we can least afford...
...series of alphabetically arranged humor columns is the leitmotif of becoming a man: Jacobs somehow turns the effort of reading 33,000 pages into the world's most passive Bildungsroman. The project, it seems, springs less from an urge to soak up information than from a desire to confront his Oedipus complex. His brilliant lawyer father, who is so competitive that he holds the record for most footnotes in a legal article, once attempted to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica but quit in the B's. But even more important to Jacobs' emotional maturation than one-upping his dad is dealing...
...Stacy Ann Mitchell and Teri Mitchell, authors of Livin' Large: African American Sisters Confront Obesity (Hilton), are on a crusade to save black women from what they view as an obesity epidemic. In a lively, encouraging book, the sisters pass along good, color-blind suggestions to women wanting to walk away from a lifetime of weight-related problems. Their honesty and enthusiasm will energize many women to battle the bulge. --By Andrea Sachs