Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nervous people jump at shadows. If the leadership looks through its colored glass and sees a potentially threatening mass organization, the view from ground level is very different. Falun Gong is, for instance, an organization not of militant students but of housewives, retirees and administrators. Practitioners make Falun Gong sound like a sort of Buddhism Lite with quaintly named breathing exercises and a clean-scrubbed ethic that disapproves of smoking, drinking and the crass materialism of today's China. Sophie Xiao has been practicing Falun Gong for two years and says it has given her "answers to things...
...Giuliani has a Venusian side; he's just not aware of it. He's got to try harder to find it--even if it means biting his tongue 10 times before giving an opinion. Hillary is a very good listener, but she has the tendency to jump in with an answer too soon." --DR. JOHN GRAY, author, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus...
Roger Rosenblatt's commentary on the extreme sport of base jumping [ESSAY, July 19] included a reference to the death of a man who parachuted from the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. The correct spelling of the jumper's name is Frank Gambalie III. Also, he did not die from the jump but apparently drowned after diving into a river as he fled from park rangers...
...when I mentioned this assumption to my boss--that I would walk the block to Union Station and jump on the metro--she returned a look of comical disbelief...
...when I mentioned this assumption to my boss--that I would walk the block to Union Station and jump on the metro--she returned a look of comical disbelief...