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...spend a lot of time face to face with my own mortality." In order to distract himself, Allen has spent his entire life compulsively mastering talents with fierce concentration: just as he spent hours practicing magic tricks as a child, he later set out to learn gag writing, performing, poker, sports, clarinet playing and finally film making. He also deals with his anxiety by seeing an analyst, but says, "That's only good for limited thingsI was always careful not to get seduced into TV writing. I was making a lot of money and knew it was a dead...
...smiling wife, two cars, a viable retirement and profit-sharing plan, a seven handicap and shortness of breath." McGee, of course, is the swashbuckling hero of 18 John D. MacDonald mystery novels who lives on a houseboat, The Busted Flush, that he won in a poker game. His aversion to structured, land-based predictability is shared by an ever growing number of Americans who live year-round on their boats...
Behind the gray stone walls of Palafox Seminary in Puebla, Mexico, 184 bishops of the third Latin American Bishops' Conference (CELAM III) spent 18 days weighing words like poker chips in a high-risk game. At stake was the future of 300 million Roman Catholics, across a continent plagued by poverty and oppression. Would the bishops be swayed by the progressives in their midst and come out in favor of church activism for the coming decades? Or would they take a conservative line and retreat from tactics that threatened confrontation with repressive political regimes? Last week the bishops emerged...
...uncertainty principle, which says, for example, that it is impossible to tell both the exact position and the momentum of a single atomic particle?an electron, say?because the very act of observing disturbs it. Only by statistical means (like those used to determine probability in dice or poker) can a scientist predict what the results of such an experiment will...
...biologist from M.I.T. Maybe that explains the scrape. He was "designing an incurable virus," he says, when he realized what he was doing. He's been on the road for several weeks sorting things out. Daybreak and breakfast in Arizona. Sleeping bags are rolled. The poker game reconvenes. Jerry cheats theatrically. When someone pulls a hidden card out of his pocket, Jerry acts flabbergasted to see it. Everybody laughs. Dennis proudly reveals that he has been an art-class model for five years. "I try to give them more than others...