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...also said that on many of his travels, women approach him and ask plaintively, "What is going to happen to my children when I die?" The problem of a generation of AIDS orphans, who have experienced the emotional trauma of witnessing their family members perish, is "hardly understood around the world," Lewis said. "We will be dealing with it over the next several decades...
...elevating what had been a mere Pentagon task force into the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization. Army Secretary Francis Harvey revealed last week that only one in 20 U.S. troops killed in Iraq die from gunshot wounds. Nearly all of the rest-he declined to be more specific-perish from explosions, primarily roadside bombs...
...feedback loop is dominated by fear?fear of failure, fear of disappointing teammates, fear of being unworthy?the circuit starts to resemble the classic fight-or-flight response. In the perform-or-perish version, anxious thoughts trigger the release of adrenaline, the hormone that sets the heart racing, primes the muscles to run and puts all the senses on alert. The eyes slip into tunnel vision?the last thing a quarter-back needs when he's relying on peripheral perception to spot a waiting receiver...
...this club secret to the best of my ability and will preserve, protect, and defend its constitution and may I be hauled up before the dean if I do not remain forever true to this my solemn oath. Any I herewith, sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, pass or flunk, give my hand and heart?...
...music. With the timing and grace of an experienced performer, Gross’s stirring final recitation that “this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth” perfectly matched the culminating swell of orchestral music...