Word: drift
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Such powerful connections become even more important as the inevitable illnesses or widowhood of late life lead us to lean on the people we've known the longest. Even siblings who drift apart in their middle years tend to drift back together as they age. "The relationship is especially strong between sisters," who are more likely to be predeceased by their spouses than brothers are, says Judy Dunn, a developmental psychologist at London's Kings College. "When asked what contributes to the importance of the relationship now, they say it's the shared early childhood experiences, which cast a long...
...morning. A day earlier, the winds that often slice through this storied, icy gut dividing North America and Asia had roiled those waters; swells had blown the Brunswick-the now-listing ship from New Bedford, Massachusetts-against one of the ice floes. During the summer, these chunks of ice drift northward from the Pacific to the Arctic through this fifty-mile-wide passage between Siberia's eastern and Alaska's western shores...
...Darwinistic in that sense. If you don't fit in, that's the guy who will say, 'I'll be the druggie.'" But discipline problems and rebels are not something that particularly surprise or worry Tony Little, the headmaster. The ones he finds vexing are the "soggy" boys who drift without engaging. They're given plenty of chances to find something that gets their juices flowing. More than 200 visitors came to speak last year at events organized by the students. "It feels quite natural for a 17-year-old to invite the Japanese ambassador to speak...
...Jubilee committees. An astonishingly large percentage of each class cannot tell you who the current football captain is, and at least an equally large percentage do not know the difference between a Junior Fellow and a University Professor. It is easy for a student merely to let himself drift here because of one great distinction that separates the University from the average American institution. Harvard is designed to speed ahead the superior student, not to herd on the average one. There is a tremendous difference between the honors and non-honors programs. The man who wants expert advice and individual...
...because what shoots up seems always to drift back down, I postpone such long-term decisions for quick fixes that allow me to linger in denial. My best trick so far is to set a dollar limit every time I open my gas cap. The idea is always to spend the same amount--$50, say--and drive as far as I can on what it buys me, even if it's not as far as yesterday. That gambit works well for a week or two, I find, but then it gradually stops working because of the same sort of sloppy...