Word: perilousness
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...future, we’ll be pressured to channel our conceptual energies into specific and limited applications, compartmentalizing what and when we are allowed to learn. Even if we attain intellectually fulfilling careers, we will still have to contend with the unavoidable peril of adult life: that is, of thinking becoming a mere chore that we’ll want to avoid whenever we aren’t made...
...Paris neighborhood. This sort of enterprise can invite directorial indifference, but at least half of the episodes are charming or poignant, with a lovely, lingering aftertaste. Special mention to Joel and Ethan Coen's vignette set in the Métro, as a tourist (Steve Buscemi) learns to his peril not to make eye contact with that mysterious young couple on the opposite platform. Another American in Paris, Sofia Coppola, was given the run of Versailles to film Marie Antoinette, about the Austrian girl who became the last Queen of France. Coppola's conceit is to reconceive the court...
...saying, 'Oh, yeah, I saw a commercial,'" says Trevor Edwards, Nike's vice president for global brand marketing. "Gone are the days where you can put an ad out and hope people see it. Anyone who doesn't understand the change in the landscape does so at their own peril," he adds. Adidas will unveil a dedicated soccer network on MySpace.com...
...attention comes against a backdrop of rising peril for dropouts. If their grandparents' generation could find a blue-collar niche and prosper, the latest group is immediately relegated to the most punishing sector of the economy, where whatever low-wage jobs haven't yet moved overseas are increasingly filled by even lower-wage immigrants. Dropping out of high school today is to your societal health what smoking is to your physical health, an indicator of a host of poor outcomes to follow, from low lifetime earnings to high incarceration rates to a high likelihood that your children will drop...
...mean totally free. Afghan clerics have denounced Italy and continue to call for Rahman's death, so he will stay under tight police protection in an undisclosed location for the foreseeable future. An Interior Ministry official in Rome tells TIME, "He is a man still very much in peril...