Word: minding
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...solidify that we weren't feuding - the Conan O'Brien show and I are really good friends - and that was about 1 o'clock in the afternoon. By 3 o'clock I turned up dressed up well enough to go on the air. The reaction has been absolutely mind-boggling. The Internet is all atwitter...
...what body part is next? Well, it depends on the price, I guess. I can spare very little, mind you. I might try liposuction and spread that around...
...ever wondered what deep thought might pass through the mind of a champion swimmer being honored as SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's female athlete of the year, flip to page 220 of Nicola Keegan's novel Swimming (Knopf; 305 pages), on which Philomena (Pip) Ash, fictitious Olympic gold medalist and the novel's heroine, observes that "it will be the only night in my life where I will dine almost entirely surrounded by people taller than myself...
...before you go seeking disaster just to test your spouse, remember that resilience evolves over time, as long as couples make it a mutual priority - and that takes patience. Keep in mind also that over the long haul, the health and mental benefits of marriage are countless. Says Diane Sollee, a marriage and family therapist and the founder of SmartMarriages.com: "You've got to know that you actually do better if you hang in there...
...recession ends and the sense of crisis fades, we mustn't lose our freshly, painfully acquired ability to think the unthinkable. We need to keep downside risks in mind, to remember that good times can dramatically end and systems suddenly fail. But in plotting our national reconstruction and reinvention it's just as important - and maybe more so - to imagine the unimaginable on the upside. As we gasp in horror at our half glass of water, we really can - must - see it as half full as well as half empty...