Word: euphoria
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...cleansing period, a bomber may ask a fellow jihadi, one better versed in religious doctrine, to help with the final spiritual preparation. Marwan says he was asked to mentor a friend intent on martyrdom earlier this year. He expects his final weeks to be a period of euphoria rather than penance. "My friend was happier than I had ever seen him," Marwan says. "He felt he was close to the end of his journey to heaven." (The friend, he says, blew himself up two months ago at a checkpoint manned by Iraqi soldiers near Ramadi, capital of the turbulent Anbar...
...reliable way of earning dismal long-term returns than betting on what's hot. Consider some of the many ill-fated outbreaks of investor madness that have gripped Asia in recent decades: the giddiness over Japanese stocks in the late 1980s, the Hong Kong property bubble of the 1990s, euphoria over Chinese red chips in 1996-97, and the mad rise of Thai banking stocks before the carnage of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. Today, as always, there are pockets of mania that could well end in mayhem?from the Shanghai property boom to delirious foreign investment in overheated...
...There is some enthusiasm within the White House for an alternative-energy push, although it doesn't quite match Gaffney's best-case euphoria. Karl Rove has educated himself on issues as arcane as the vagaries of ethanol transport, and there is a drizzle of funds for research into alternative fuels in Bush's big fat energy bill. But the President and Dick Cheney, who has been in charge of energy policy, remain oilmen at heart, skeptical about a major Manhattan Project-style national campaign to redirect the energy market, mindful of the time and expense necessary to build...
...that weren’t enough to keep the ever-widening fan-base of the once-cancelled Fox show in a dizzying state of euphoria, there’s more: co-creator, chief voice actor, writer, and executive producer Seth MacFarlane is also unveiling the first season of a new project, called “American Dad”—whose first episode premiered after the Super Bowl—immediately following the new “Family Guy.” Recently, MacFarlane sat down to discuss his new politically-charged show, the jump back...
...conservative mind-set is expressed by Msgr. Wilhelm Schtzler, secretary general of the West German bishops' conference: "Following the euphoria of the council, certain negative developments have crept in, and they must be soberly analyzed and, if necessary, corrected by the synod." Conservative U.S. lay Catholics have lobbied for synod action on empty seminaries, dissident priests and nuns, and what they consider to be inadequate parish education. But the most noteworthy reforms enacted by Vatican II are no longer at issue...