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...Europe and Latin America, your fate as a soccer fan is predetermined. Your father's team tends to become your team, end of story. We Americans are blissfully liberated from the weight of such history. When we become passionate about international football, we have the luxury of choosing our allegiances, of falling in love with whichever club suits us best. This freedom means that you will never tether yourself to an eternally hopeless bottom-dwelling club - unless that's your masochistic bent. You can pick a club that squares with your identity - be it gritty and hardworking, or champagne flash...
...After each match went as the Crimson hoped, Harvard’s fate rested in its own hands...
...biggest remaining question mark hanging over ground zero is the fate of its controversial centerpiece. The plan for the Freedom Tower has always been more emotional response than business proposition, born out of a desire to show the world that Americans would not be cowed by terrorists. "We have a public responsibility to rebuild ground zero, and it's incumbent on us to build a tower of freedom and democracy," says Charles Gargano, vice chairman for the Port Authority. "We need a signature building. It's not just a real estate project...
...need only look to The Great Falls Tribune, where in past months editors have thrice given front-page coverage to Molly, the cow who escaped a packing plant, went on a many-hour rampage through town, and eventually eluded her fate by winning enough hearts to buy her amnesty in a pasture in my hometown’s outskirts. The Molly mayhem subsided, but then there was the “problem badger” who took up residence in the lower South side, a saga which produced such headlines as “Woman Can?...
Perhaps the worst fate for a person with ASD is to have a lively intelligence trapped in a body that makes it difficult for others to see that the lights are on. Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich at the University of California, San Francisco, studied an autistic boy who is unable to speak or even sustain his attention to a task for more than a few moments, and yet is aware of his condition and writes remarkable poetry. How many other autistic kids, Merzenich wonders, "are living in a well where no one can hear them...