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...should be seen as little surprise that Alex Rodriguez has joined the list of great players who have taken steroids. While his figure has not attained the Herculean proportions of Jose Canseco or Barry Bonds, the sheer prevalence of steroid use in Major League Baseball that A-Rod and others have described makes A-Rod’s drug use more predictable than shocking. His tale is simply one more on a sordid list from an era inexorably tainted by the stain of performance-enhancing drugs...
...With food prices up 73% and some forecasting unemployment exceeding 10% this year, all eyes are on Sigurđardóttir as she tackles the herculean task of salvaging the island's economy. "The job she is about to take on is both the most difficult and most critical that any Icelander of our generation has taken on," former university rector Runólfur Ágústsson said. "The future of this society depends on how she handles this position...
...with unemployment soaring toward 25-year highs, housing prices plunging and the nation's biggest banks facing insolvency, it is difficult not to wonder, Is Summers - is anyone, really - up to this herculean set of tasks at this impossible moment? And if the responsibility must fall largely on the shoulders of one man, does it have to be a guy in an ill-fitting suit who has a reputation for occasionally putting his foot in his mouth? The one who speaks in a disembodied patter while his nail-bitten fingers fiddle with his constant liquid sidekick, a can of Diet...
...defined period (10 days, by some accounts). That interlude would then allow for the brokering of a more comprehensive cease-fire. But each side's goals from any truce remain antagonistic to the other's, and reaching an agreement that bridges the vast gap between them remains a herculean diplomatic challenge...
While neurologically this may seem like a Herculean task (we think at about 2000 words a minute, but can only hear 175 words a minute), with patience and practice, we can make more of our thoughts be about the words we hear. Not only will our understanding of the other person improve, but that understanding will lead to better responses on our part. Researchers have devised a slew of strategies for better listening, but the solution doesn’t really come down to asking more follow-up questions or “predicting outcomes.” What better...