Word: mucked
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...pass a primary school where a bunch of 10-year-olds of all colors and shapes are having a physical education class in the autumn sunshine. Within the space of a few minutes you watch them encourage and console one another, succeed and fail, concentrate like demons and muck about amid noise and mirth. And you have to wonder, whatever the arguments to the contrary: Is this a snapshot of something - school life - that children could really be better off without...
...anecdote from a 14-year-old: “The first boy I ever dated kissed with a soggy open mouth...I felt as if I were being forced to lick the side of a stagnant well. His tongue was a live, wriggling fish that reeked of algae and muck that left a trail of glistening slime across my lips...[So] I figured that kissing was just another of those nasty things that adults had to endure, like scraping dinner plates and wiping baby’s [sic] asses...
...over censorship, but over the crass fact that Google's profit increased a mere 82% in its last quarter. That's not enough for a $433 stock, which became a $381 stock in the days after the announcement. Google may foster a perception that it is beyond the muck of the marketplace, but Wall Street is rapidly getting wise to the less poetic realities of the situation...
Even Prime Minister Paul Martin descended into the muck last week, all but branding his opponent an alien from outer space, or at least Texas. "The farthest of the U.S. far right--that's what [he] means when he says it's time for a change in Canada," Martin told supporters in Toronto. "Well, let me tell you something ... That's not the kind of change that Canadians want. America is our neighbor. It is not our nation...
Life planners, qualified ones at least, operate on a set of assumptions different from those of traditional number crunchers. Life planners believe that you need to do some soul-cleansing, trudge through the muck of self-examination, before you can build a money plan that will guide you through an emotionally and materially secure second half. So put down the calculator for a moment, they suggest, and start with some tender inquiries into why you're not getting your financial house in order. Could it be, say, that your shopaholism stems from a lack of, well, confidence? That you need...