Word: golden
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...with John Updike, the esteemed chronicler of the postwar suburbs. But if you came to his fiction expecting sunlit scenes of American life, you were mistaken. Though his work was shot through with the beauty and abundance of the world, of suburban "nights where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains," there was also failure and weakness at every turn. The men were poorly equipped for life; the women were treacherous; children died. (See the top 10 John Updike books...
...Amrit Davaa Wellness Center at Golden Bridge Yoga in Hollywood to improve my focus, my center and my mind-body relationship. In short, I'm here because I live in L.A. and this is what we do. "Wellness centers are popping up in Los Angeles," says Narayan, a practitioner of what she calls sacred healing beauty. "Spas are having a hard time right now because they're only pampering. They're not addressing wellness. I bridge the gap between beauty and healing." To improve my wellitude, I'm trying the 90-minute Faceology, a $180 procedure you've probably never...
Other head injuries include skull fractures, which can lead to brain bleeding, and concussions, which typically don't--but which can lead to swelling and potentially permanent brain damage. As a general rule, doctors say that any head injury should be treated within the so-called golden hour after it occurs. In some cases, hospitalization and drugs may resolve the problem. That was what happened with my daughter, who was released after three days. Even then, we realized how close we had come. Now we know better than ever...
...reason for Obama's election and high approval ratings is his privileging of the empirical and pragmatic ahead of ideological reflex. We have not, of course, arrived in a golden age of fair-minded, intellectually honest postpartisanship, as proved by the congressional votes on the stimulus package and the redoubled ferocity of brain-dead partisans. But a majority of Americans out in America are dialing back or turning off their ideological autopilots, thanks to the economic crises, Obama's approach and the post-Cold War realities. With the Soviet Union gone and China socialist in name only, the specter...
...called, each to his own measure of capacity, and each in the widest horizon of his vision, to create the first great American Century." And so we did. The question now is how far we can extend our heyday of manifold projects and magnificent purposes. Golden ages and empires do come...