Word: preciousness
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...Basically, I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly in Harvard athletics. They're all precious memories that I will cherish as an integral part of my college experience, which has been the proverbial best four years of my life...
...would change you as a person: In the time it takes you to read this sentence (about seven seconds), you are that much closer to your own inevitable death. Really feel like flouting the Grim Reaper? Reread the sentence (hey, it's your funeral). You've squandered almost 15 precious seconds of your life, and there's absolutely nothing you can do to get that time back...
...what we really want to know is, How do you go from one day being perhaps the second most powerful person in the country, as the Washington Post had it, to becoming a bloated, hairless, poisoned shell of yourself, without drowning in Why me? All lives are equally precious, but swashbuckling politicians who swagger through life surrounded by aides whispering in their ears, who exercise power over people like House Speaker Tip O'Neill (who once referred to the upstart Jordan as Hannibal Jerkin), shock us when they're stricken...
Some heavy hitters - some surprising, some not - are lining up behind Bill Clinton's precious China trade bill. On Wednesday George W. Bush went to Boeing and stood with the White House on the bill, declaring "our greatest export is freedom." And Alan Greenspan pitched in with economic arguments on Thursday. But after the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee both tipped overwhelmingly in favor of granting China permanent status as a normal trading partner, TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan says it's hard-core liberal Democrat Charles Rangel who may deserve much of the credit...
...changes consciousness altering?" Hanks asks. "Or is he just the same guy, with his vision altered five degrees, and those five degrees make all the difference in the world? It's a bad analogy, but what do you learn as a cancer survivor? You've learned life is precious. Maybe you eat less red meat. It's not like you glow with an otherworldly wisdom...