Word: greate
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...care. I have my health, I've got a beautiful family, I've got a great job, and I wish that for everybody. I hope that the aforementioned couple find that happiness and find what they're looking for because they're obviously looking for something...
Gold is unlikely ever to be a great investment in the sense that buying into Microsoft in 1986 or Google in 2004 has been a great investment. The price of gold in dollars has more than quadrupled since the end of the long gold bear market in April 2001, but over the long run the return has averaged about 2% a year, says George Milling-Stanley, managing director for government affairs at the World Gold Council in New York. (That compares with about 8% for stocks.) It's less a ticket to riches than what Milling-Stanley calls an "insurance...
...would have had anything nice to say about Konstantin Feoktistov except maybe that he wasn't a communist. Feoktistov, who died on Nov. 21 at age 83, was part of that cursed group of Soviet cosmonauts who had a troubling habit of beating the Americans to all the great milestones in space: Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth before John Glenn; Alexei Leonov walked in space before Ed White. And Feoktistov, along with two compatriots, was part of the first group spaceflight, piloting the Voskhod 1 when it rocketed into orbit on Oct. 12, 1964. America's two-man Gemini spacecraft...
...year [Nov. 23]? I would suggest that those considering cloning adopt one of the millions of shelter animals, then donate the difference to have other animals spayed and neutered. This would help prevent the tragedy of so many unwanted animals in this world--which would be a truly great invention...
...loved the illustration of the Chinese educational system as told through the story of 7-year-old Liu. Although Liu's parents work, he is met each afternoon by his grandparents, who are active participants in his after-school activities. Liu was surrounded by his extended family at his great-grandmother's 90th birthday party before he headed to his Saturday classes. I was struck by how enriched he must be--not just by his teachers but also by his family...