Word: felted
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...than it was in 1989, even from the remotest of regions. And though everyone was watching Tiananmen then, this is different. This year, the whole world is not only watching; it's coming to Beijing, less than five months from now. Thus, officials from Premier Wen Jiabao down have felt the need at least to try to make the case that the government response has been measured, and that any violence was the fault of the demonstrators. Before, they would have just thumbed their noses at the rest of the world...
...Edward Suarez at Duke University gathered 210 healthy men and women and asked them detailed questions about their sleep habits--including how long it took them to fall asleep, how many hours they had slumbered in the past month, whether they slept through the night and if they felt drowsy during the day. Then he recorded their levels of cholesterol, insulin, glucose, a clotting agent known as fibrinogen, inflammatory proteins that contribute to heart disease, and insulin resistance (the precursor to diabetes). Since emotional factors can affect sleep as well, he also assessed each subject's levels of depression, hostility...
...there a moment in your life where you felt like quitting the fashion industry? Dian Pasquinal Kaur, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThe moment I felt like that was right after the death of my brother. I wanted nothing to do with fashion anymore, because of the pain of losing my brother-I thought fashion would not exist without him. Then I thought, Gianni wouldn't like this. He would love me to continue his job and continue to fight for the Versace brand to survive. That made me find the strength...
...campaign war room to become his chief economic-policy adviser, and he now works as one of the most visible advisers to Hillary Clinton's campaign. He trained as a lawyer but developed a passion for economic policy in the wake of the Democrats' 1980 presidential defeat. "I felt the Democrats were not portraying themselves as being both fighters for equity and believers in growth and optimism," Sperling says...
...Many students and professors appreciate this need for a breadth of knowledge. “I have yet to find a student who has not felt that the liberal arts…provides them with a very unique perspective on the sciences or the social sciences,” says Homi K. Bhabha, a literature professor and director of the Humanities Center. “Though academically they may be experts in particular areas, one of the things the liberal arts does is create an intellectual bridge across disciplines...