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...think of a civilization based in a perpetual future turning around and shifting gears. Maybe we are looking backward because we are unable to live in the future anymore, because the future comes so fast that we can't look forward to it. Or because one can feel happier in the past by being selective about it. The trouble with memory is remembering too much, but a careful editing of past events can produce paradise...
Indignation over the designated-hitter rule abides, but baseball traditionalists are a noticeably happier bunch these days. Through May, runs per game were down from 10.62 last season to 9.57 this season. Most of the credit is being given to better enforcement of the strike zone, but after years of looking like deer caught in Ted Nugent's backyard, pitchers are displaying a potent new weapon. "I call it the pitch of the new millennium," says ESPN baseball analyst Harold Reynolds, a former All-Star second baseman. The increasingly popular pitch is just a modified fast ball, but by putting...
...week (excluding bamboo bungalow rooms that range from $6 to $45 a night), the Spa at Samui's eastern Lamai beach offers nothing less than the elixir of youth. With promises of "a longer and happier life," derivative traders, TV producers, flight attendants and other visitors swallow herbal nutrition tablets, quaff detoxifiers and regularly flush their insides. The talk over laxative tea runs from the latest stock fluctuations to?I'm not joking?the day's excreta. The guest book includes testaments to changed lives and?I wish I were joking?photos of half-meter-long expunged intestinal parasites...
...employers like Harvard or Princeton pays more than the minimum competitive wage, she says, employees will be happier and will work more efficiently...
...limbs, implanted with sensors, just by focusing their brain waves. The faithful can find like-minded believers in a persecution-free online environment that can be as anonymous as anyone wishes. These applications are proof of the wonders of our new world, one in which people live longer, healthier, happier lives...