Word: quits
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...easy to see how Chu ended up as a workaholic. At times, he hinted at an emotional price, mentioning offhandedly that a son from a previous marriage quit school and was "trying to find himself." But Chu found his niche in the lab, building state-of-the-art lasers from spare parts to tinker with quarks and "high-Z hydrogen-like ions," preferring the rigor of experiments that either worked or didn't to abstract theoretical physics. At Bell Labs, he spent phone-monopoly money playing with electron spectrometers, gamma rays, polymers and other gee-whiz stuff...
What we really need to do is something Americans have never done well, and that's to quit thinking big. We already eat four times as much meat and dairy as the rest of the world, and there's not a nutritionist on the planet who would argue that 24?oz. steaks and mounds of buttery mashed potatoes are what any person needs to stay alive. "The idea is that healthy and good-tasting food should be available to everyone," says Hahn Niman. "The food system should be geared toward that...
...Buffalo, N.Y., and a friend have already booked 19 flights for the first 12 days of the promotion. They plan on taking as many trips as possible through Oct. 8 and have created a website, twelvehoursinacity.com, to document their half-day stops around North America. DiNardo says he'll quit his job if his employers don't grant him time off for the journey; so far, he and his boss are discussing a plan in which he would do some work remotely. DiNardo says he is in talks about sponsorship opportunities with several companies. For example, he has pitched...
...Predictions: Harvard will beat Yale. Again. You’ll stop caring that you think Uggs are tacky and realize that a scarf is more than just a fashionable accessory. By now, most of your friends have probably dropped off the crew team. You probably quit last month...
...Yang was doing much more than that. He started practicing on his own during the evenings, and the game took hold of him. Even after his father forced him to quit and take a higher-paying construction job, Yang's interest in golf persisted, and he would practice without his father's knowledge. ("Who knows," Han-joon says now with a laugh, "maybe if I had encouraged him, he wouldn't have played.) Incredibly, he effectively taught himself how to master the notoriously difficult sport on Jeju's double-decked driving ranges, not taking formal lessons until he turned...