Word: minding
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...owner of a commercial reconstruction business, speaks of the "freedom" he feels while riding. On his $135,000 Cobra, every piece of metal is streamlined to the machine so there is not a straight line on the bike, and that union of form and function takes his mind off everything else. "I have a real high-stress business, but when I get the chance to get on a bike for 15 minutes, to smell the fresh air and see the horizon, all is better...
...curveball. Is there any other explanation for his calling her "a pragmatic moderate"? She has said, "The free market has failed," "Something has to be taken away from some people" and "We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." A Marxist mind-set hardly defines a pragmatic moderate. Douglas Abrams, LOUISVILLE...
...balloon flight was a personal dream, the last thing to write in the history books before the end of the 20th century," says Piccard, whose father and grandfather were legendary ballooning and diving adventurers. "This project is more difficult and more useful: we want to share a state of mind...
...jokes, he was "too campy in the camp." His natural levity masks the loneliness and vulnerability he felt in the barracks. But ultimately it was poetry, rather than humor, that gave Wong a means of working through the frustrations driving him, at times, to a suicidal state of mind. "It helped me wash my dirty linen in public," he says...
These semantic questions might do a lot less to solve the stem cell problem than those researchers in Wisconsin and Japan did last week, but they do tell us a little about the mind of the man in charge. In the end, perhaps Bush’s attitude can lend us some perspective about what we ought to value in America. Instead of striving for scientific progress, revolutionary strides in improving health or even moral integrity, let’s just sit back and count our world records...