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...running full speed through Orly Airport in Paris. My flight from New York got in late and I am about to miss the plane to Moscow that will carry me to Vientiane, Laos, and on to Hanoi. As I round a corner, I slip on the polished floor and down I go. I know immediately that I have refractured the foot I broke the previous year ... By the time we land in Moscow my foot is swollen and blue, and I know I must get it tended to. I have a four-hour layover, so airport officials...
That early January weekend, after all, featured two games against Colgate and Cornell. League games. Very, very important games. Games Tom Cavanagh was not about to miss...
...Florida is back, and if you thought eyebrows raised last time, wait until you read The Flight of the Creative Class. Florida finds that competition for creative workers has gone global (no shocker) and that the U.S. is about to miss out on the best talent because of restrictive immigration policies, a lack of R&D spending, the culture wars and stepped-up competition from abroad (cue the maelstrom). Not only are Americans more likely to get sucked into such cities as Sydney and Dublin, writes Florida, but China and India are increasingly able to retain homegrown talent that...
...TIME. But in the final days many were struck by the sudden transparency of the Vatican's thick walls. Reports on the Pope's condition were clear and regular; the press office was open around the clock. It was as though church officials were following his instructions not to miss the opportunity embedded in grief...
...afraid" was his motto as he lived his faith and faced his death. The man, once an actor, always a witness, who had taken the teachings of his church to more people in more corners of the world than any other Pope in history, would not miss the chance to deliver one last lesson. Every camera would be on him: "If it doesn't happen on television," he once said, "it doesn't happen." So the sight of his suffering was an invitation to mercy; his courage a gift of example; his power made perfect in weakness...