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...bout of nausea and accompanying thoughts of "What am I doing?!" But as he spread out the parachute and we attached our harnesses, and the chute filled with air and jerked us even higher than our take-off point, thoughts of plummeting to my death were replaced by the pleasant sensation of floating through the sky. The 30-minute flight down to the beach was like viewing the world from the window-seat of a plane, only better. Eric even let me take off my helmet to get the full effect, which he assured me he only does...
...clarity of mind and viewed this feat as a nearly successful attempt to stop my otherwise healthy teenage heart. When we finally disembarked, I was more than willing to parachute down the mountain, imagining it would be a much more civilized ride. But Sugar was quick to squelch that pleasant thought when he informed us that conditions at the top were not good, that there was not enough wind and what little wind there was was blowing in the wrong direction. I pretended I didn't notice the bewildered stares of my friends when I asked Sugar if he thought...
...excited to be here," Weston said. "Everyone has been very pleasant...
Books have weight and texture; they make a pleasant presence in the hand. Nothing smells as good as a new book, especially if you get your nose right down in the binding, where you can still catch an acrid tang of the glue. The only thing close is the peppery smell of an old one. The odor of an old book is the odor of history, and for me, the look of a new one is still the look of the future...
...about it, and if all's quiet on the Consumer Price Index front next Wednesday, the marketeers might be ready to lock into a slow-boiling, summer-long uptick based on the assumption that Greenspan is finally off their backs. But between now and then? Friday's pleasant rally turns to next week's nail-biting, and though Wednesday should be reassuring, nervousness is a very hard habit for these markets to break...