Word: euphoria
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...aftermath of a workout [March 3]. As an octogenarian with more than 50 years' experience doing daily exercise, this feel-good effect never fails to reward. It is not just a satisfaction of accomplishment and knowledge that it's good for your health, but it's also a corporeal euphoria: you simply feel better physically right afterward. A 4-ft. by 8-ft. (1 m by 2 m) floor space is sufficient for the 20-min. routine of calisthenics I developed years ago. The human animal evolved over an unimaginably large expanse of time, during which physical exertion was necessary...
...aftermath of a workout [March 3]. As an octogenarian with more than 50 years' experience doing daily exercise, this feel-good effect never fails to reward. It is not just a satisfaction of accomplishment and knowledge that it's good for your health, but it's also a corporeal euphoria: you simply feel better physically right afterward. A 1-m by 2-m floor space is sufficient for the 20-min. routine of calisthenics I developed years ago. The human animal evolved over an unimaginably large expanse of time, during which physical exertion was necessary for survival. Simulating the evolutionary...
...expectations can result in disappointment of course, and there's sure to be some of that next year no matter who wins the White House. In the euphoria of fresh elections it's easy to forget that U.S. Presidents pursue their own agenda first. Depending on who wins, the next Administration could press on with globally unpopular policies such as staying in Iraq, or throw up new trade barriers that would hurt the rest of the world. But for the millions who look to the U.S. as a model, a place of hope and transformation, the world seems a better...
...What Abdullah certainly did promise was to combat graft and strengthen civil liberties during his tenure. The vows so pleased Malaysian voters that in the 2004 elections, less than five months after Abdullah became Prime Minister, the National Front won its largest-ever mandate. But the euphoria hasn't lasted. Abdullah has been criticized for everything from restarting several of Mahathir's extravagant megaprojects to rolling back press freedoms that he himself had granted. At the same time, his stolid image as a compromise candidate has come back to haunt him. "His performance is disappointing, unexciting," says Kuala Lumpur-based...
...strikes last year. It exports narcotics, has been accused of counterfeiting $100 bills, hasn't come clean about the Japanese citizens it kidnapped - kidnapped! - over the decades, and still isn't living up to all the terms of last February's nuclear deal. Largely lost, moreover, amid the American euphoria over the concert was the fact that it came less than two weeks after Kim's 66th birthday - a day when the national cult of personality goes into overdrive. No one should be surprised if the regime's message to its populace is, Look, even a famous American orchestra plays...