Word: saneness
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...muscles. "It is a fight against air, which feels more like concrete at that speed," says French speedster Nicolas Bollon. Officially recognized by the International Ski Federation only in 1988, the sport has had an understandably hard time shaking its kamikaze reputation. Still, aficionados contend that it is reasonably sane and safe, at least relatively speaking. France's Michael Prufer, the world's fastest skier, blanches at the thought of pastimes like bungee jumping. "Too dangerous," he declares...
...opens this week in Milwaukee. Dahmer has pleaded guilty to the killings, but contends that he cannot be held criminally responsible because of mental illness. If found insane, he will be sent to a state mental hospital, where after a year he could begin petitioning for release; if judged sane, he will go to prison for life. The sensational trial is sure to reignite debate on the insanity defense, one of the messiest and most controversial areas...
...sane economist will tell you, small businesses are much more important to a nation's economy than big businesses. In the United States, small businesses account for over two thirds of our economic activity. In still-repressive Romanina, 100,000 small businesses have started since privatization and market reform began in early...
...favorite palindrome: RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR. The trick has first of all its bright little surprise of words, and then, on second look, a deeper, perverse magic -- a double negative of meaning that ends in a metaphysical buzz. RATS LIVE ON EVIL STARS would work in a sane world, or else RATS LIVE ON NO GOOD STAR...
...which, being a good biography, it does. Two of the poet's nieces, Lisa Taylor Tompson and Mary Gray Ford, sent a letter to the New York Times Book Review in which they try to rescue the family from Anne's messy version. They assert the rights of the sane and normal. "We take pride in her art and her accomplishment," the nieces write. "But we strenuously object to the portrayal of people we knew as libidinous, perverted beasts whose foul treatment of this deeply troubled soul drove her to the anguish she felt...