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Instead of allowing our desire for mastery over the unknown encroach upon our sense of wonder, we ought to cultivate that sense of wonder, or at least refuse to unlearn it. There is a middle ground between rational analysis and naive innocence, and a robust sense of wonder ought to occupy that middle ground. If we forbid ourselves from feeling awe and excitement, we may do long-term damage and risk setting ourselves on a collision course with midlife crises...
...result is an industry in flux. Although condolences are hardly in order--last year the industry sold $7.5 billion in cards--sales are flattening and earnings are lackluster despite a robust economy. The industry enjoyed double-digit growth from the late '70s through the '80s. Wall Street, about as sentimental as a dollar bill, issued its own greeting to the industry recently: "Get lost soon." In a single day's trading in February, American Greetings, the nation's largest publicly owned greeting-card company, with $2 billion in annual revenues, lost $800 million in market value, tumbling...
...military capabilities with its bombing runs. Milosevic's military infrastructure has been reduced; his ability to retaliate has been minimalized. But these achievements carry the same applicability as the ideas of "autonomy" and "peace" that have echoed through the Allied Force's characterization of the war. They sound like robust achievements and the kinds of gains that win the wars politicians fight, but they miss the essence of the Kosovo problem...
...complaint against the Phoenix Suns, alleging that the team's mascot, the GORILLA, insulted visiting Sacramento Kings center OLIVER MILLER. At a recent game the Gorilla donned a Kings jersey with Miller's No. 8 on it and stuffed it with pillows, a rather unkind jab at Miller's robust 6-ft. 9-in., 370-lb. physique. Miller called the skit racist and said it embarrassed him in front of his family. Furthermore, the humiliation caused him to gain still more weight. Suns' management said there was no racist intent by the Gorilla, "the premier mascot in all of team...
...studied 70 subjects, half of them men, half women. Witvliet finds "robust" physiological differences between nonforgiving and forgiving states. Subjects' cardiovascular systems inevitably labor when they remember the person who hurt them. But stress is "significantly greater" when they consider revenge rather than forgiveness. Witvliet suggests that we may be drawn to hold grudges "because that makes us feel like we are more in control and we are less sad." But interviews with her subjects indicate that they felt in even greater control when they tried to empathize with their offenders and enjoyed the greatest sense of power, well-being...