Word: remainings
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Welcome to France, the only major Western country where the idea of making a profit evokes popular fear and loathing, where privatization and flexibility are such taboo words that Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, a socialist, avoids using them. "You wonder just how exceptional France can be and still remain a player in the global economy," muses a Western diplomat in Paris. And yet--vive le paradoxe--France today boasts a healthy growth rate, low inflation and a muscular foreign-trade surplus. At the same time, Jospin has actually privatized more state-owned enterprises than did his conservative predecessors, has reined...
...example, stroke patients with damage to the brain's language centers remain, in Damasio's view, perfectly conscious. But while language allows us to express consciousness, explaining our interior state to others, he doesn't regard language as the wellspring of consciousness, as some have claimed it is. Much closer to the wellspring, he says, are our emotions. Indeed, to him, consciousness "is the feeling of knowing that we have feelings...
...wrists were handcuffed behind his back. Facing forward, he squatted down so a guard could remove his cuffs through a slot low in the door. This is how things are done at the federal "Supermax" prison in Florence, Colo., where he has been since last spring and may well remain for the rest of his life...
...Here it's the other way around. I'm not depressed or downcast, and I have things I can do that I consider productive, like working on getting out this book. And yet the knowledge that I'm locked up here and likely to remain so for the rest of my life--it ruins it. And I don't want to live long. I would rather get the death penalty than spend the rest of my life in prison...
...they'd fled a shipwreck, they must scrabble for food, water and shelter by cooperating. Up to a point, that is. Every three days, the group must also vote by secret ballot to expel one or two members--once for each of 13 episodes--until only two remain. The expelled members then decide which of the pair wins a $1 million prize...