Word: guts
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...greatly valued on Sept. 10 (entrepreneurialism, ambition, stick-to-itiveness) are relevant, necessary, even heroic now. We want them to make us believe - for the sake of the Todd Beamers still reluctantly catching flights - that "re-evaluating our priorities" and "doing business as usual" are, despite everything our gut tells us, really the same thing...
...century heyday?has always been insular. Even today, reaching this historical jewel of China's Jilin province is no easy task. From Beijing it means an overnight train to the Manchurian sprawl of Shenyang, then another eastward to the industrial city of Tonghua, followed by a gut-churning hour in a taxi via the hairpin turns and dense forests of the precipitous peaks of the Changbai range. Simply reaching Ji'an's narrow valley sanctuary along the Yalu River in one piece feels like a miracle...
...either because they cannot afford that life-extending cocktail, or because they've developed a new form of AIDS that's resistant or non-responsive to existing drugs. Many others will die because they don't believe AIDS is still a deadly disease: recent breakthroughs in treatment means the gut-wrenching fear of the late 1980s has evaporated - and with it, obsessive (and lifesaving) condom use. Today, young people in many developed countries, including the U.S. have seen people live symptom-free for years with an HIV-positive diagnosis. As a result, many are not particularly worried about...
...plans to begin trading with the neighboring tribes. One morning, while camping in what is now Montana, Lewis awoke to a struggle between an underling and an Indian who was trying to steal a rifle. Moments later, one Blackfoot brave lay fatally stabbed, and another was bleeding from the gut, cut down by a bullet from Lewis...
Harvard was behind 4-1 against Princeton ace Brie Galicinao. In the last inning, Harvard freshman Beth Sabin shook up Galicinao with a two-run homer. Soon after, Harvard put two runners on with two outs for tri-captain Sarah Koppel, and Galicinao nailed Koppel in the gut...