Word: dreadfulness
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...what you thought you had wanted. Of course, unwillingness to rest on one’s laurels can clear a path to great achievements. But at the level of personal happiness, that path can become pathology. Many of my students face the future with a mixture of expectation and dread, each day more attuned to the goals that might elude them (and the embarrassment that might ensue) than to the ones they’ve already conquered. If you learn one thing during your college years, learn when and how to be satisfied. This is not a dress rehearsal...
...could be propelled by a mounting spiral of popular enthusiasm to send their own forces to reinforce the frontline states. That would cue Saddam Hussein to demand his opportunity to send armored forces to threaten Israel by marching through Jordan or Syria or both. The King of Jordan would dread such contaminating assistance in his territory, and Assad of Syria too would fear it, but if the rhetorical escalation of the leaders and popular agitation heat up the climate, it might become impossible to deny passage to Iraqi forces in part because they might bring with them the chemical...
Most of the Canaday C residents greeted the prospect of Quad living with dread, worrying about long walks and isolation...
...wept when I read the story of cc, the cloned kitty cat [SCIENCE, Feb. 25]. As the owner of two dearly loved cats--and having gone through the anguish of losing one--I dread the coming time when I must say goodbye. But the idea of taking DNA from one of them and thinking that scientists could give me back what I had lost is abhorrent. How many people will have the misguided but understandable hope that they can somehow cheat death? Both of my cats are shelter animals, and when they were kittens, they were...
...from the Pentagon about nuking America's least-loved Muslim states isn't going to help Vice President Cheney persuade the Arab world that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction are sufficient reason to support a war that U.S. allies in the Arab world are already regarding with considerable dread...