Word: racer
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...their race craft. "There is no better place to learn how to read your competitors, how to pressurize them at Turn 2 so that at Turn 4 they make a mistake," says Jason Plato, 39, the Seat team driver currently leading the British Touring Car Championship, and a kart racer from the age of 11. "All those subtle skills you learn in karting...
...precipitous. They argue that while "paddo" use may have been involved in serious incidents, it's too easy to single out the drug as the cause of them. Municipal heath services determined that the man who killed his dog had a psychosis unrelated to the drug, and the Danish racer consumed alcohol and smoked marijuana before taking his "paddo." Amsterdam municipal heath services report that the number of mushroom-related incidents, while rising, is still dwarfed by problems caused by alcohol. Advocates of a ban counter that the easy availability of magic mushrooms amounts to an invitation to further tragedies...
After defining happiness, Ben-Shahar offers suggestions on how to apply these theories to education, work and relationships. Regarding education, Ben-Shahar advocates instilling a new approach to learning in children, shifting away from the rat-racer mentality of seeking good grades alone toward appreciating the process of learning as well. In the workplace, he emphasizes the importance of choosing work that is sufficiently challenging and also enjoyable, as the combination of effort and pleasure will lead to greater success on the job. As for relationships, Ben-Shahar describes the necessity of loving relationships to one’s happiness...
...definitely think as a racer, the more time you go up against the top, the better you’ll be,” Lofgren said. “But you’re never content with just racing—you want to do well...
...made an impression, created that "Adam Brody type." And what he really wants to do is to take that type and put him in an action movie--something, he says, like Dustin Hoffman's character in Marathon Man. Or like the lead in the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer, which he lost to Emile Hirsch. Or, and this is when his nerdiness does finally, yes, reveal itself, the kind of action comedies that Harrison Ford did. "Like when he's talking to Princess Leia--that Han Solo attitude!" he says. "Like 'Listen, sister: Stop bitching!'" I'm a little afraid...