Word: joying
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...LUCK AND JOY OF BEFRIENDING HUI?...
...themselves changed as well. After years of radiation and chemotherapy had destroyed Shirley Nelms' teeth, Nelms wanted a new smile so her teenage daughter would look at her with pride. Dream Foundation tapped Dr. Roya Akbar, a Marietta, Ga., dentist, for about $9,500 of donated dental work. Nelms' joy at the result was so moving to Akbar's staff members that, two months after her death, they continue to keep her photo on their computers as a screensaver...
...Maybe the color of the Nobel Prize medal should be changed from gold to red, white and blue. U.S. researchers swept the science awards for the first time since 1983. But the joy came with a warning from many in the U.S. scientific community: the kind of basic research that won Nobels is no longer getting adequate funding. Without more funds, they argue, U.S. scientific dominance won't last, as other nations become more competitive in these cutting-edge fields...
Kalfus mirrors the postdiluvian upheaval in the U.S. through the battles fought in the Harrimans’ marital war. Both the commentary in Kalfus’ novel and the joy of reading it radiates from this nearly-pornographic voyeurism into the couple’s fights, the epic “blistering argument[s] encompassing all the issues that had brought them to divorce in the first place,” and their underlying emotional dysfunction—“when they watched news of wars on TV, reports from the Balkans or the West Bank, they would think...
...Nick Lampson is the favorite of most oddsmakers to beat the late-starting G.O.P. write-in candidate Shelley Sekula-Gibbs. In southeastern Ohio, former House Administration Committee chairman Bob Ney is retiring after pleading guilty last month to trading favors for campaign contributions from Abramoff. But his handpicked replacement, Joy Padgett, can't shake the taint of scandal. Ney's solidly Republican district favored Bush by 14 percentage points in 2004 but is now polling anywhere from 2% to 14% in favor of Democrat Zack Space...