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...disappointed if gas prices stay uncomfortably high. Then I might finally be able to adapt to them. I might relinquish, at last, my selfish fantasy of buying a 300-h.p. sports sedan that uses only premium. I might break myself of the obsessive road-trip habit that caused me to put over 90,000 miles on a new SUV in just the past two years. I might trade in the SUV for a mountain bike and lower my blood pressure as a wholesome side effect...
...touchiest aspects of the spanking debate is that some groups tend to spank more than others, out of habit, cultural tradition or common parenting practice. Men, low-income parents, Southerners, evangelical Christians, Latinos and African Americans are more supportive of spanking. African-American parents say their children need to be especially under control in a prejudiced society. "I think black people have a lower tolerance for children looking disrespectful," says Pam Jackson, an economist and single mother in Washington. Wilma Ann Anderson, publisher of Mahogany Baby, an online magazine for black parents, and a mother of four, agrees. When...
...always been Nintendo's habit, maybe even its compulsion, to bet its big franchises from time to time. That's one reason it has been able to transform itself so completely over the years; it began life in the late 19th century as a playing-card manufacturer. It's also the main reason the company keeps really large reserves of cash handy, in case things go awry. Look at the disastrous Virtual Boy, a 3-D game system that was released in 1995 and retired, unmourned and largely unsold, in 1996. Look at the name they come up with...
...During a term abroad in East Africa, I acquired the impolite habit of asking non-Tanzanians why they’d come to Tanzania. My own reason was to learn Swahili and to get a sense of the place whose history I’d begun to study seriously...
...everyone can be a good person even if they don’t look like one on the surface?” she asks Darnay in a flat voice). Certainly, much more meaning could be drawn out from all of this—using the French peasants’ habit of making ridiculous, rhymed slogans as political commentary, for example—but to do so would be to miss the point. “A Tale of Two Cities” was about taking a break from academic analysis, leaving the classroom to sit on the grass with...