Word: minding
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...distinction; while endangered wolves are protected under almost all circumstances, wolves in experimental populations enjoy protection only as long as they don't present a threat to livestock. Under this definition, the Yellowstone wolves live their lives in a state of permanent probation, safe only as long as they mind their business and stay in their range. Wolves that go AWOL and attack domestic animals can be shot as summarily as their ancestors were...
There are many ways, some gruesome, some graceful, to kill yourself once you set your mind to it. Ted Kaczynski's attempt to hang himself with his underwear in his jail cell last week seemed a clumsy gesture compared with the convoluted strategy he has been employing in court. First he threatened to fire his lawyers if they kept insisting on portraying him as mentally ill. Then he argued that he wanted to defend himself. And that, lawyers observed, would probably ensure that he would wind up dead after...
...showed how erratic Kaczynski can be. And once again the more temporal matters of his guilt or innocence, which never seemed much in doubt, have been pushed aside while the lawyers and judges have a long nationwide conversation about just what constitutes crazy in an already crazy world. Never mind all those journals tucked on the shelves next to the Shakespeare and Thackeray; all those carefully constructed bombs and the letters; even when the government has the evidence on its side, other factors seem to conspire to change the subject...
...life. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. You are commanded to do that. That is the breadth of life. But never forget that there is a first and even greater commandment, `Love the Lord thy God with all they heart and all thy soul and all thy mind.' This is the height of life. And when you do this you live the complete life...
...both simplistic and unjust. It mistakes an indifference and impatience for tedious classwork with a spiritual malaise and selfish inwardness. These are two very distinct kinds of boredom--and they have very different implications. The first, the indifference, is a particular dissatisfaction, the outward sign that one's mind and one's priorities are elsewhere, for better or worse. The second type of boredom is a sickness. It is totalizing, spiritual and philosophical. College first-years these days are bored in the first sense only; they do not have their minds on their work because they are concerned with their...