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...smile splitting his scarred and twisted face. The 40-year-old veteran of the past four Paralympics lost his legs, one eye and the hearing in one ear when he stepped on a land mine in 1983, during the Iran-Iraq war. But Kashfia insists he does not regret what happened to him. "Look at all I have now," he says, speaking of his gold medals, the friendship of his teammates and his country's respect. "Playing sports has opened more gates than anything my previous life could have offered...
...instructive, as are his graphic descriptions of the rewards. How much of the book is autobiographical? "Moi, je ne regrette rien," Piafs Clarke, who refuses to talk about his personal life (he is reported to have children in Paris schools). Not that there is much for him to regret these days. Bantam and other publishers are looking at his two previous unpublished novels, and Clarke is at work on a sequel to Merde. "I just love this whole cultural clash thing," says the man caught in it for more than a decade. "There's so much...
...centenarians took from the 19th century. There's a poetry of common sense in their scheme for immortality. Eat sensibly. Keep walking. Keep knitting. If you can't keep friends, make new ones. Plan so much invigorating work that there's just no time to die. And no regret when...
...Make sure your vote counts, order your absentee ballot today." REPUBLICAN PARTY FLYER, sent to voters in Florida's Miami-Dade County, where questions have been raised about the reliability of new touch-screen voting machines. Party officials later expressed regret for the message...
...announcement, Hawking recanted a position he had held for nearly 30 years. He also pulled the rug out from under a generation of science-fiction fans, declaring dead a favorite plot device. "There is no possibility of using black holes to travel to other universes," he said, with evident regret. And, finally, he conceded defeat in a long-standing bet with Caltech astrophysicist John Preskill, who thought there wasn't a problem in the first place...