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...What was your lowest point as commissioner, and your highest point? -Luiz Dias, Fort Worth, TexasThe worst has probably been having to suspend players for life for failing drug tests. Another was being at the announcement that Magic [Johnson] was HIV positive, when we expected to lose him. [The best] has been watching the U.S. and the world embrace the athletes of the NBA, who had earlier been described as "too black" for us to succeed...
...dolphin? I think we have a longing to be part of the web of life, and animals remind us of that. I mean, that's part of why we have pets, I think, it sort of pulls us back into that broader web. For me, that was the real magic of the book and learning the training - because the way these principles worked with every species, including us, made me feel like, "See? We are part of it." Because we think of ourselves as this invasive species, but we're not. I mean, we behave like that...
...better than well” is an optimistic myth: medications for psychiatric disorders enable people to feel normal, not better than normal. Antidepressants bring people from the hell of severe depression to a sense of being able to function normally; they aren’t magic happy pills. Similarly, they don’t make normal and appropriate feelings of sadness (or anxiety or anger) go away; a person whose brain chemistry is balanced (with or without the aid of medication) feels sad, even miserable—just not hopeless or suicidal for months or years on end. (Thus...
...intended for a barely-adolescent audience. University President Drew G. Faust outdid even her sparkle-tastic self when she quipped that, “Harvard isn’t exactly Hogwarts, but I’m sure that her visit with us this June will be a moment of magic.” Magic? Here, at Harvard...
...holding a new record in your hand, you steal the MP3s. Instead of getting sunburns and grass stains, you get Wiijuries and you smash your plasma TV when the Wiimote slips off your hand. We’ve all lost sight of the real thing.“The magic of instant photos is going digital,” read the opening line of a February 18, 2008 Polaroid press release. The epitaph declared that Polaroid would cease production on their line of instant film and cameras by the end of 2008. The thought of not being able to purchase...