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...During this break, we emphasized making sure we hit the net instead of maybe trying to pick that top corner and driving wide,” Du says...
...Chennifer. Best way for a guy to get your attention: Punching me in the face. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Probably with my blockmates. First thing you notice about a guy: The fist he just used to punch me in the face with. Your best pick-up line: Do you like gold? ’Cause I’m an alchemist. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I’m an alchemist. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: I’m really an alchemist. Favorite childhood...
...Christmas may mean one thing to those who celebrate it in the religious sense, it means something else entirely to those others who are seen as trying to horn in and take holiday cheer that isn’t rightfully theirs. Thanks to the tendency of American society to pick up on cultural traditions and then disseminate them for public consumption, it’s almost inconceivable that any group could expect to keep anything strictly for themselves. After all, apart from the fact that most Americans are Christian and non-Christians are therefore perpetually surrounded by expressions of that...
...some, it is unclear exactly what these non-Christians think they are doing when they wish each other "Merry Christmas," and head down to Sears to pick up a few red and green sweaters (50 percent off) for their spouse and children. After all, they say, "Jesus is the reason for the season." And what do those atheists down the street or the Hindu kid in Tommy’s kindergarten class know about Jesus? Nothing, that’s what. And so they have no business participating in this Christian tradition if they aren’t going...
...Mamma Lizzie" was a farmer who lived her whole life in Tennessee. But the typical American worker right now changes jobs about every four years, and moves more often than people in any other industrialized country - more than 40 million of us pick up and move on every year. So how many jobs will we hold, how many places will we live, how many friends will we make and lose, or never lose because the Facebook generation will follow one another through all their travels and troubles and triumphs? Lizzie was married for half a century; but she was widowed...