Word: mated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Daily practice of Buddhism has the power to transform your relationship with your mate, family, community and world. It's funny how shrinking the self can open up amazing possibilities. TIM UNGER Fairfax, Calif...
What Plato called the two sides of a self that search for one another eternally, ancient Hebrew poets call a Bashert (soul mate), one is destined to find. Regardless of your philosophical leanings, it is easy to think of life as a quest for that certain someone who knows when to offer a Kleenex, give a sideways glance or laugh at that joke only you tell just...
...pleasant ride over some pretty rugged intellectual terrain, it is because Pinker writes in the same breezy style that brightens his classroom lectures. He likes to quote Mae West ("Men like women with a past because they hope history will repeat itself") and Woody Allen ("I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics"), along with linguist Noam Chomsky, artificial-intelligence guru Marvin Minsky and, of course, Charles Darwin. Pinker has a showman's sense for knowing "when to hold his reader's attention with an illustration or a joke," observed University of Oxford zoologist Mark Ridley...
...online and standing in line a dozen deep at the corner Fidelity or Schwab office. Only 10 years since the most devastating one-day plunge in history, Americans are married to the market in confounding degrees. They have the trust of a newlywed that stocks will be a lifetime mate. The average person has more invested in the market than in the house that shelters him. Stocks account for more than 40% of the average household's financial assets, more than in any period in history. The percentage of adult Americans who own stock has risen from...
...doesn't know my name yet," Mate said...