Word: grips
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...don’t go to class, I go to required sections, and then I come to the [robot] lab,” he says, almost robotically. While some members manage to find time for other activities, others acknowledge robots have an all-consuming grip over their souls. Says Y. Richard Gong ‘09 only half-jokingly, “RoboCup is my life...
...threat of U.S. nukes, the villagers take heart. "For the years to come, we will live with our eyes turned to the sky, waiting for the American bombs to rain down on us, waiting to prove to the dictator our courage, and our loyalty." Li knows the warm grip of collective insanity...
...have found a biological blockbuster just the same. "Every decade there are more people, more roads, more human control over the earth," says expedition co-leader Bruce Beehler, of the environmental NGO Conservation International. "It's nice to know there are a few places we haven't got a grip on." Among their finds...
...simple," says Murray. "Human beings are relationship-forming animals. That's what we are. All our genetics gear us toward solid, supportive relationships. It is through these that we survive." Just as strong bonds are the path to avoiding depression, so they're the only escape route from its grip. Fortinberry says her depression was cured by her relationship with Murray. Antidepressants can only mask pain, she adds, while cognitive behavioral therapy is inherently flawed because it assumes that healing occurs from the inside out when really it happens from the outside...
...call itself Communist. It is still far from clear - now here's an uncertainty - that over the next decade China will be able to navigate a course that grows prosperity, with all the expectations of clean, accountable government that go with it, without also relaxing the Communist Party's grip on political power. One more curiosity. For all the attention paid to India and China, the denizens of Davos this year seemed willfully oblivious to the revival of the Japanese economy, and to the palpably renewed self-confidence among the Japanese political élite that their lost decade is over...