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...make sure the business you choose is something you have a passion for. This has to be a natural decision. The only other thing I would say, is you have to have a lot of luck. You should never dismiss luck, but when you get a stroke of luck, you consolidate...
...mental satisfaction" because their basic material needs are largely fulfilled, she says. "The environment has drastically changed," says Kada. "Twenty or 30 years ago there were many fish in lakes and rivers. But that has changed drastically and Japanese have started to think, 'Where have my fireflies gone?'" With luck and some mottainai, they'll soon be back...
...Face it: there's no one fuel panacea, and in the final analysis, humans will have to scale back their numbers to live within a finite-fossil-fuel (or even renewable-fuel) world. And good luck with that. William L. Seavey, Cambria, Calif...
...photograph of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev before the Lincoln Memorial. Glinn attributed that shot--his best-known work--to chance. "I was late, and I couldn't get to where everybody else was," he explained. "The most important thing that a photographer like me can have is luck...
Waiting for the President There's the rub. If he is to fulfill his ambitious agenda, Brown will have to master the one skill he has never perfected: the ability to communicate and persuade. In his defense, he can claim bad luck: he followed into office Tony Blair, at his best one of the most pitch-perfect masters of the black arts of political persuasion ever seen. But after a rocky few months, some Labour Party activists, worried about their prospects at the next election (which doesn't have to be held until 2010), openly wonder whether Brown...