Word: pursuits
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There is no telling the impact this generation is going to have as it reinvents what it means to get older and applies its many blessings and ingenuity to the pursuit of health and happiness. "As we age, everything for our generation is going to be different," says Susan Johnson, 54, who quit her job as a Washington lobbyist to become a consultant to families with aging parents and complex medical problems. "We're staying in shape. We're eating healthier. We're Internet savvy. As we start to get into our golden years, we'll be on the Internet...
From that point on, it seemed that every sinking liner took a sudden, last-minute dive toward my left foot. Racing around the outfield grass in pursuit of the fly balls, I must have appeared something like a chicken without its head...
...Gallo is continuing the pursuit, critics notwithstanding. After Red Bicyclette's success, the company released a new French wine in April: Pont d'Avignon, a Côtes du Rhône from the Rhône Valley. It's about twice the price of Red Bicyclette but boasts flavors that are more complex and reflect the Rhône terroir. Da Vinci, a new Chianti that Gallo produced with Cantine de Leonardo Da Vinci's Alberto Antinoni, hit stores last year and is similarly higher priced. Like Pont d'Avignon, Da Vinci has the slick packaging of Gallo's other imports. Here...
...aftermath of 9/11, Americans found themselves wondering how people could despise the American way of life, the pursuit of freedom and liberty that we enjoy. Many Americans found answers in the roots of American hegemony and the foreign policy objectives that supported this dominion. However, it became quite clear that, in the eyes of the in-party, questioning the vagaries of American foreign policy was against the very fabric of American values. If one disagreed with the Bush Doctrine then one was anti-American...
...According to a police report on last week's attacks, officers were in hot pursuit of a twenty-something terror suspect, Ehab Yousri Yassin, when he jumped off an overpass in central Cairo and detonated his bomb. The homemade device, apparently patched together with explosive powder from fireworks and a few handfuls of nails, decapitated the bomber and injured several foreign tourists and Egyptian passersby. The police believe that the symbol-rich site of Yassin's attack - a central square facing Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party headquarters, the famed Egyptian Museum that contains the treasure of Tutankhamen...