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...showed only a few fleeting glimpses of competence at this technique, in contrast to my instinctive affinity for various ways of catapulting myself facedown in the snow. It was a sobering dose of reality for what had up to that point been a pleasant but purely imaginary endeavor. As I sat slumped in the car on the way home, feeling heretofore unknown muscles in my ass (pivotal for skating, largely unused while sitting at a desk) tighten and cramp, there was no doubt that it was going to be a long haul...
...said she learned more about life as an MRA than in any other endeavor at Harvard," North writes in an e-mail message...
...their votes; he was claiming the votes he believed he had already won. So Gore finally lived up to his own billing: the candidate who is not afraid to choose "the hard right over the easy wrong," the fighter who doesn't shrink in the ring. The hard, joyless endeavor of winning votes had been "like crawling over broken glass," in the words of an aide. It seemed the least that fate owed him at the end was, if not a blessed victory, then a quick, clean defeat. But in the past five weeks, "the situation, the significance, the stakes...
...there a race between Collins' publicly financed team and Venter's commercial venture? You bet there was. But, as Collins points out, Venter would not even have been a contender had it not been for the much larger international endeavor. As Collins sees it, the winner of the rancorous contest that started in 1998 is not any individual scientist or team of scientists but everybody in the world. In essence, what the race produced was a collective self-portrait at a faster pace and cheaper price than most had dared dream. And what could be wrong with that...
According to Hobbs, Marshall scholars often go on to become "leaders in their fields of endeavor." Former scholars include Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt...