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...though mayors prefer to downplay the costs of fighting global warming, there seems to be truth to the Bush Administration's contention that meeting the Kyoto targets involves pain--not just gain. And in Seattle, where population growth is projected to push up regional greenhouse gases by 38% in the next 15 years, ratcheting down to 1990 levels would require slashing emissions by 683,000 tons--the equivalent of taking some 148,000 cars off the road. To do that may require such unpopular measures as highway tolls and increased parking taxes. But in the absence of federal controls, Nickels...
...middle-aged you, gym-loathing you--can get into shape and, like Navratilova, stay in shape. After years of giving advice ad hoc, Navratilova has written a book explaining how. In Shape Your Self, Navratilova argues that healthy food can taste good, getting fit doesn't require physical pain and joining a health club isn't necessary to get results. The bottom line, she says, is "you have no excuse...
Most science and math Cores at Harvard are like a hazing ritual: you have to get through them, but at the end, all you’re left with is relief, and perhaps a strange pain in your liver. You don’t learn to think critically by memorizing these equations; if anything, you learn to cut corners...
...about the value of comedy. “Comics are known to be unhappy people,” he said. “As someone who has done comedy...you realize it’s a blessing. It’s a mitzvah. It is a moment when the pain ceases. Laughter is not our constant state.” Dreyfuss and Debilles spoke to a motley collection of participants ranging from undergraduates to a resident tutor to a journalist. An undergraduate at the New School, Ensa C. Cosby, whose father is the actor, Bill Cosby, traveled from New York...
...wasn't the same man. He only talked to me once about his time over there. About the time they went to rescue some POWs. I can see his face now, the way he kept saying, "That was a bad day." I wouldn't wish that kind of pain on any man, on any family. Any man in office who would send men to die based on half-truths and lies doesn't deserve that office...