Word: habitations
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...losing hope that he is still alive after five years. "He may have become a martyr," says his brother-in-law, Chung Se Gook. "But the government should officially confirm whether he's dead or not." Either way, the evidence strongly suggests that Pyongyang hasn't kicked its kidnapping habit...
...find their feet. the 250-plus racers from around the world who compete each year in World Cup events in Europe and North America rarely achieve their best form until December, two months into the racing season. But not Bode Miller. The hyperversatile American athlete has made a habit of winning races even before the first snow drifts down into the mountain valleys. This year, again, he started faster than the rest. Miller won six of the first 10 races of the season, and he did so in all four disciplines, from the highly technical slalom event to the nail...
...suck." But I can attest to the long-term effects. For the next three years, our ride home was far more pleasant. And when my now 21-year-old daughter calls to talk about things going wrong, she always brightens her mood by relating something good. Happiness is a habit best learned early...
...Under Carson, The Tonight Show became Habit Television, which is how the sponsors like it, and most viewers too. Not everyone wanted the Paar caffeine jolt after midnight; what's needed is a pleasing comedy sedative. The ratings underlined the acuity of Carson's choice. After 15 years his audience had nearly tripled Paar's, and accounted for 17% of NBC's revenue...
...moralists who take up crusades on various issues, and rely on the media to advertise them - and themselves." The fury over BHL raises a question: if Lévy is the perfect French intellectual for the media age, what's become of intellectualism? Can the philosopher's rarefied habit of mind survive in the spotlight? The criticism is not entirely new; BHL's earlier works were widely denounced by late, great French intellectuals like Deleuze, Pierre Bourdieu and Raymond Aron, who labeled his positions hyperbolic and rash. By contrast, Cohen laments, books like Who Killed Daniel Pearl...