Word: convert
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...immediately a defibrillator convert, believing every workplace and public space should have one and train its employees in its use. Once we get out the machines and start practicing, I am even more convinced. The machine decides whether the victim needs a shock and speaks its instructions aloud. It is so effective and easy to use that even the actor playing the ditsy fry cook could save a life with it. And now I could...
...also covers something less glorious: the persistence of performance-enhancing drug use among athletes. The TIME team in Sydney will include our (conveniently) Australian-born senior editor Belinda Luscombe, correspondent Sally B. Donnelly, staff writer Joel Stein and assistant picture editor Jessica Taraski. Associate art director D.W. Pine will convert their work into sumptuous layouts. The staff of TIME Australia, our South Pacific edition, is already in full Olympic mode. With these Games, Wulf, our sports sage, can add a new chapter to her college thesis, which studied TIME coverage of the Olympics since World War II. She traces...
...immediately a defibrillator convert, believing every workplace and public space should have one and train its employees in its use. Once we get out the machines and start practicing, I am even more convinced. The machine decides whether the victim needs a shock and speaks its instructions aloud. It is so effective and easy to use that even the actor playing the ditsy fry cook could save a life with it. And now I could...
...snake handlers and pagans? Or Hindus or Buddhists or - gasp - atheists? Are Jews and Christians and Muslims, who each have had historical turns as the persecuted minority, now supposed to be the tolerant majority? Are they to band together against the rest, promising to tolerate them but hoping to convert them? Would Bush be a freedom-of-religion president, or freedom-of-major-religion president? If this is pandering - and it is - it's pandering to some very short memories...
...more than 50 years of dealing with problem drinkers (including myself), I have witnessed very, very few who were able to convert to happy moderate drinkers [BEHAVIOR, July 31]. The majority who tried to consume alcohol in moderation returned to problem drinking with disastrous results or found abstinence in recovery or 12-step programs. Why take a chance? Abstinence can bring fun and the joy of living. WILLIAM H. McGAUGH Riverside, Calif...