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During his year at Duke, Mundheim discovered his passion for teaching, and decided to pursue it as a career. He found the perfect match for his interests at the University of Pennsylvania Law school—a school located in between the financial district of New York and the political center of Washington...
...colleagues and friends were not surprised at the intensity with which Begley pursued his long-standing passion...
America's love affair with the automobile actually ended when we decided to marry the car, forsaking all other nonairborne forms of transport. We tore up the streetcar tracks, stopped building sidewalks and federalized the major passenger rail lines, thereby rendering them largely useless. Our passion for the car still burned hot at times, but it gradually cooled as traffic congestion worsened, fuel prices soared, and the theory of global warming became the 110° reality. Then came the wars in the desert, culminating in our current...
...Cuaron, it's time for the Potter people to consider letting other world-class, slightly weird directors helm the last four films. How about Tim Burton (Sleepy Hogwarts), Ang Lee (Crouching Wizard, Hidden Snape), Pedro Almodovar (All About My Voldemort) and, for the wrenching finale, Mel Gibson (The Passion of the Quidditch...
...appetite for meat didn't mean we lost our passion for sweets, though. As Berkeley's Milton points out, the brain's growth may have been facilitated by abundant animal protein, but the brain operates on glucose, the sugar that serves as the major fuel for cellular function. "The brain drinks glucose 24 hours a day," she says. The sugars in fruit and the carbohydrates in edible grains and tubers are particularly good sources of glucose...