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...truth, storm chasing is arduous work that generally entails more common sense than courage and more physical discomfort than danger. Professional chasers often drive 15 hours a day for days at a time, subsisting on junk food and virtually no sleep. "We eat whatever Texaco, Conoco and Citgo are willing to serve up," laughs University of Oklahoma meteorologist Joshua Wurman. Nor do the hazards of the job always come from nature. Last year Wurman stopped during a chase to help extract a car from a ditch. "While I was pushing, the driver gunned his engine and I was covered...
...Freidrich Abendsland, as the ever-confident yet consistently odd William Hard, manages to keep us balancing on the razor's edge of discomfort at which the play's confusion aims. He manages this wonderfully, despite having to deliver tiresome recurring jokes about a mysterious element called tantalum...
...bright side, so to speak, of grave injury, discomfort and nearness to death is that you emerge with a clear fix on what the heart treasures. Mostly I didn't learn anything new but had the satisfaction of having my hunches confirmed. I emerged knowing that, as I had always suspected, the time I spend with my wife and boys is all that matters in the end. I emerged as a practicing Jew. (Admittedly, I had always been one.) In the "miscellaneous" department, I emerged with great admiration for Senator Dole, whose battlefield injuries were a little like mine...
...first time, the correspondents' association sent a formal letter of apology to the President. "What did the organization think they were getting when they invited Imus? I fault them," said Tom Brokaw. abc's Jackie Judd, one of the dinner's organizers, said, "We wanted some discomfort, but not that much." After the show, White House press secretary Michael McCurry called C-SPAN to ask that it not re-air the event. In a press release C-SPAN countered that the public had a right to see "what all this fuss is about." abc's Cokie Roberts, an Imus regular...
Randomization may increase any alienation or sense of discomfort that some black students feel by making it impossible for there to be any significantly-sized black community on campus. In this way it makes black students bear the costs of increased integration. After all, all white students will still live in Houses that are predominantly white, while black students will no longer have the option of living in a black community of significant size...