Word: simpler
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...caught up in the hustle and bustle of modernity is confronted with an evening news interview with a 102-year-old. This sight gets him to thinkin' and it also gets Mr. Chesney to croonin'. You see life moves so fast! Before you know, home videos, smiles from a simpler age, and the full weight of memory itself come crashing through the TV set, plastering the guy's glass walls with images from a life gone rushing by. So don't blink, and don't you dare spend too much time trapped in those tubular interwebs. 'Cause you're gonna...
Things were simpler in 2000, back when Adebari arrived. A convert to Christianity, he fled Nigeria seeking asylum from religious persecution. He picked Ireland, he says, because of an inspirational Irish missionary he knew in Nigeria. Adebari, his wife and their two sons settled at the time in Portlaoise to get away from Dublin's hustle and bustle. Although Ireland eventually rejected their bid for asylum, by then Adebari had a third son, born in Ireland; at the time it was enough for the family to claim residency rights, which would no longer be the case today...
...atheist position is simpler. In 1948, Hitchens ventures, Teresa finally woke up, although she could not admit it. He likens her to die-hard Western communists late in the cold war: "There was a huge amount of cognitive dissonance," he says. "They thought, 'Jesus, the Soviet Union is a failure, [but] I'm not supposed to think that. It means my life is meaningless.' They carried on somehow, but the mainspring was gone. And I think once the mainspring is gone, it cannot be repaired." That, he says, was Teresa...
...detailing gee-whiz techno fixes, 11th Hour makes the deeper case that to change our ecological destiny we have to change not just how we live but how we buy. Again and again, we're told that Americans need to stop the insanity of relentless consumption, and instead live simpler, smarter and slower. My dwindling bank account and I are all for it, but there's something not quite right about having that message brought to you by someone like DiCaprio. DiCaprio would neither be wildly rich nor wildly famous - he wouldn't be Leo, in other words - without...
...fabric that I thought might speak to him. Van Praagh felt the gold lamé and the pink floral print and didn't say anything. Then, running a piece of denim through his fingers, he said, "A lot with denim. More denim. I think you'll see lines that are simpler and cheaper and more accessible...