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What are you trying to accomplish writing this book? It's not about me. It's about who I help. When I see people on the streets that are homeless, I think 'that could have been me if I had quit.' Everything I wrote in this book I went through, and I went through it publicly. If I didn't get up and quit, hopefully that could encourage other people not to quit...
...bulk of its foot soldiers, as well as several key defense-related industries, ranging from shipbuilding in Ukraine to nuclear enrichment in Kazakhstan, according to an analysis of Russia's military in February by Stratfor, a U.S. company. The upheaval also forced many of Russia's finest engineers to quit for better-paid jobs abroad. Defense factories across Russia lumbered through the 1990s, many of them barely seeing a splash of paint. Meanwhile the Russian army filled its ranks with reluctant conscripts; recent Russian newspaper and government reports have found physical abuse, drug addiction and alcoholism rampant among the poorly...
SIMON COWELL insinuates he may quit American Idol, leaving no one to prop up Paula...
...international censure it received. Infuriated by the United Nations' condemnation of the launch, which flew over Japan and fell into the Pacific Ocean, Pyongyang kicked out international monitors from its nuclear facilities on April 14, and has said since then that it would restart its nuclear program and quit the on-again off-again so-called six-party disarmament talks...
...Kennedy quit his job and headed to the Bay Area. Using his friendly shark as a mobile billboard, he earned a number of commissioned projects, creating everything from the "Topsy-Turvy" school bus for Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's ice cream (made to protest military spending) to a giant whale for Nevada's 2001 Burning Man festival. All the while, he continued to drive his trusty Ripper up and down the roads of Northern California with sharklike restlessness...