Word: glides
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...shuttle Challenger in 1984. The view takes your breath away and fills you with childlike wonder. That's why every shuttle crew has to clean noseprints off their spacecraft's windows several times a day. An incredibly beautiful tapestry of blue and white, tan, black and green seems to glide beneath you at an elegant, stately pace. But you're actually going so fast that the entire map of the world spins before your eyes with each 90-minute orbit. After just one or two laps, you feel, maybe for the first time, like a citizen of a planet...
...surgery, and more than a quarter-million Americans were getting it each year. Doctors would make three small incisions in the knee, insert a tiny scope, flush debris out of the area with water and sometimes shave away rough surfaces around the joint to help the tendons and ligaments glide more smoothly. Part of the appeal of the surgery was that it was minimally invasive; most patients walked away requiring little or no recovery time...
...into long, straight runs through rice paddies, and the previous hour's terror is left behind?much like the worst moments of river rafting, once the boat reaches calm waters. "We do fall in sometimes," admits Ee Kan, poling away from the rapids. But by the time we glide past a jungle that thrums with cicadas and dragonflies, I have forgotten my near dunking, and I am convinced this is a lovely way to lose an hour. Just don't wear your best Prada mules...
...Their bodies sway helplessly to the Kern music, then surrender to embrace. Retreating, touching, whirling across the ballroom floor, they try to fight the magnetism of their love, their shared art. The only way to escape its pull is to play the game to its climax. And so they glide up a winding staircase and into the spiraling ecstasy of a dozen dizzying pirouettes. Suddenly she is gone. He is alone. The dance is over...
...that two people facing the same circumstances can react so differently? Why are some folks buffeted by the vicissitudes of life while others glide through them with grace and calm? Are some of us just born more nervous than others? And if you're one of them, is there anything you can do about...