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...essential to read what you don’t want to read.” She writes because she’s “okay at it,” in the same way an athlete keeps running the 400 meters not out of any sheer joy in the endeavor but because he can do it well...
...Reality Bites, reminds me of a time when college seemed far away, interpersonal dramas didn’t extend beyond recess and general contentment pervaded my life. By beginning each day with a song like “My Sharona,” the possibility of finding simplicity and sheer, happy moments in my week renews itself. With such a start to the day, a whole ’80s playlist can result, incorporating everything from the sheer exhilaration of J. Geils Band’s “Centerfold” to The Bangles’ lingering...
Most Americans--55% of those surveyed in a recent TIME/CNN poll--believe SUVs are safer than cars because of their sheer size. But that's not necessarily true. In 2001, the most recent year for which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has figures, there were 162 deaths per million SUVs (including crossovers) and 157 deaths per million cars--meaning the death rate for SUVs was slightly higher. Why? There are several reasons, but in blunt comments last month, Dr. Jeffrey Runge, the NHTSA administrator, highlighted the most important: partly because of their high center of gravity--a feature...
...sheer scariness, the most grim talk came from Raymond Zilinskas, an expert in bioterrorism at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. In chilling detail, he described the efforts of Soviet scientists at the height of the Cold War to develop lethal germs, such as variations of anthrax and the smallpox virus, that could be carried to targets almost anywhere on Earth by ballistic missile. While these programs have presumably long since been cancelled, he foresaw no real defense against such bioweapons, other than stronger international conventions. That's something the Bush administration has resolutely opposed, he said...
...looking closely, observers see that each animal has been posed so that it is hunting another animal. Thank goodness for those hunters, otherwise these animals would have been out killing each other. The aforementioned bronze bear statue greets guests as they pull into the parking lot, and its sheer size and violence is meant to let hunters know that their sport is preventing such travesties as this. The store also houses what it calls a gun library, replete with a bearded gun librarian, a veritable “Guns ’R Us” of elaborate hunting rifles...