Word: godsends
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...surprisingly durable. Having first surfaced in Tokyo discos in the early 1990s, parapara caught fire again in 1999, when pop idol Takuya Kimura of SMAP went on television and flashed some karate-chop like moves. For dance club wallflowers, uncomfortable with the demands of hip-hop, parapara was a godsend. The steps are simple. You don't have to ask anyone to dance. Everyone's doing the same thing and no one stands out?except those who haven't done their homework...
...audio, and the camera doesn't catch details in Ashton's many works of art. Her brilliant yellow clay dragon with jewel-like eyes and feather wings is a gray blob on the computer screen. But to Ashton, the videoconference is "cool." To her mom, it's "a godsend...
...wasn't entirely believable last week when President Bush declared it was time to "move on." The furor, says Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, is "a godsend for President Bush." Clinton is "making the honesty-and-integrity case for us," says a Bush aide. "We don't have to do anything." Clinton grouses in private that the Bush forces are quietly working to keep the controversies alive, but even he concedes that it's smart politics...
...feel very excited to have advocates like Jeffery Sachs," said Joia S. Mukerjee of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. "More spending for our patients will be a godsend...
RITALIN For millions of children who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), drugs like Ritalin have been a godsend. Yet at the same time there is real concern that the use of Ritalin to curb all manner of fidgety behavior has become too casual and that the drug is actually being abused as a performance booster. A Duke University study suggested that the drug is, in fact, both over- and underprescribed. The Duke team found that 25% of kids with confirmable ADHD are not getting the drug, while more than half the kids who take the drug should...