Word: joying
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...Fish from Drowning, the latest and most radically un-Tanlike of Tan's novels. Instead of examining personal relationships, this time she takes on two of the more pressing moral issues of the age: how to do good in the world and whether it matters. Her previous novels - The Joy Luck Club (she also co-wrote director Wayne Wang's 1993 movie version), The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses and The Bonesetter's Daughter - were all best sellers focusing on the bond between mothers and daughters, the latter often Chinese-American like Tan. Uncharacteristically, Saving Fish...
...took my first bio class junior year, and I remember I was reading about photosynthesis and they asked me to leave the Science Center library for making too much noise. I felt like a blind person who had finally come to see, and I screamed with joy when I [found out] how this all works. If you have the right teacher, every day is a revelation...
...their eyes to the possibilities of these kinds of kids?" asks Patricia Bauer, a former editor at the Washington Post. Her daughter Margaret, 21, has Down, and is, according to her mother, an avid reader, Red Sox fan and downloader of Internet recipes as well as a "source of joy and delight to her family." Says Bauer, who makes a point of saying she is not a churchgoer: "Most of the people who make these decisions don't know an individual who has Down syndrome. They don't know about the advances in recent years...
...whether they're overprescribed and the sundry other medical, ethical and ideological questions that swirl around these drugs, it's worth acknowledging that depression in its most severe form is a crippling condition. Over time, sufferers of melancholic depression (formerly known as endogenous depression) lose the ability to feel joy, excitement, empathy - just about anything except a gnawing dread. They eat without appetite and their sleeping patterns are shot to bits. Imagine being alone at 3 a.m., having just awoken from a nightmare. That, depressed people say, is a hint of how they feel in every waking moment...
...Terms of Frontierment.” School officials expressed their gratitude for the Theatricals’ continued dedication to arts in education. Judith Contrucci, K-12 coordinator for visual and performing arts for Cambridge Public Schools, said her reaction was one of “astonishment and joy.” “The Hasty Pudding Theatricals have made one of the most altruistic gestures I’ve ever encountered in 33 years in education,” she said. “They feel so passionate about arts that they are willing to go to extreme lengths...