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Many people, understandably skeptical about these quasi-religious rituals, have stopped flying instead. Others are thinking about moving out of New York and other big cities, and some have done so. These are responses more in keeping with the scale and drama of the episode that provoked them, but they may not make any more sense. David G. Myers of Hope College in Holland, Mich., calculated that terrorists would have to hijack 50 planes a year and kill everyone aboard before flying would be more dangerous than driving an equal distance...
...their bravery is secondary. Of course you're going to find Type A, goal-oriented people flying cross-country on an 8 a.m. Tuesday flight. But what's to say that a planeload of weekend vacationers wouldn't have fought for their lives too? Nothing, except maybe a quasi-Calvinist assumption: success breeds virtue, and those who were leaders on the earth must have been leaders...
...confused with Falun Gong, a quasi-religious and political movement that uses similar exercises, Tai Chi combines intense mental focus with deliberate, graceful movements that improve strength, agility and--particularly important for the elderly--balance...
...their bravery is secondary. Of course you're going to find Type A, goal-oriented people flying cross-country on an 8 a.m. Tuesday flight. But what's to say that a planeload of weekend vacationers wouldn't have fought for their lives too? Nothing, except maybe a quasi-Calvinist assumption: success breeds virtue, and those who were leaders on the earth must have been leaders...
...blocking group is my quasi-girlfriend,” Levin says.“I definitely feel a little pressed for time, I have other friends, with them its the things we’ve always done, hang out and smoke. But it’s hard to make time for that...