Word: mentality
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...cost Americans $26.2 billion a year. And although many of the half a million preemies born in the U.S. each year go on to live long, healthy lives, for too many the problems of their entry into the world are compounded by long-term complications ranging from mental retardation and cerebral palsy to hyperactivity and respiratory disorders. "We all bear the costs," says Dr. RuthAnn Shepherd, director of the Kentucky department of health's division of adult and child health improvement...
...Sain, the last pitcher to face Babe Ruth, and Braves left-hander Warren Spahn were deemed so crucial to the team's successful campaign for the 1948 National League pennant that a lyric was born: "Spahn and Sain, pray for rain." Sain later became a visionary teacher, stressing the mental side of pitching and inspiring accolades from players like Jim Bouton, who dubbed him "the greatest pitching coach who ever lived...
...film the story of the French Catholic saint. Later the negative was destroyed in a fire. Dreyer constructed a new version using the negatives of alternate takes from his original filming. That too was lost in a fire. But 25 years ago, in a closet at a Norwegian mental institution, a complete print of the original somehow turned up - a mess, but the real thing. This impeccably cleaned-up transfer, a miracle of restoration as well as rediscovery, allows the film to be seen as it has not been since its premiere. The disc also provides a history...
...preparation for his starring role in last year’s blockbuster “Batman Begins,” he gained it all back in muscle weight.But “Harsh Times” demanded a more subtle approach. As Bale put it, “the mental preparation dictated the physical result.”“It really had to do with body language that just followed on from mental preparation, immersing myself in the Chicano culture in L.A,” he recalled. “[Director] David [Ayer] called in friends and buddies?...
...appealing to law schools and employers. But I am interested in justifying the study of literature as an end in itself, not just as useful primer for more worldly endeavors. Is it after all a perennially elitist pursuit, the perquisite of an ivory-tower class, an ecstatic act of mental masturbation? And if it is the last, who cares? Am I disturbed by possibly devoting my life to something so solipsistic? Or does the persistence of a literary public give the study of literature some genuine import...