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...World News Tonight, Peter Jennings called the report "the very best news [about Alzheimer's] there has been in many years, perhaps ever." The Wall Street Journal ran a more skeptical, enterprising piece, but it too gave top billing to the story. Normally cautious neuroscientists were genuinely enthusiastic, but somehow their sound bites came across as overly optimistic...
...forth through the camera, the rippling host became increasingly agitated, and gave me a firm scolding while the set crew and production team waited for Take 13. The speech repeated itself in a abridged version during Show 2, and in an even shorter shorter version during Show 3, but, somehow, by Show 4, I had found my rhythm, and was handling my new friend, the tele-prompter joystick, with the skill of any of the characters in the movie American Pie. Further-more, to be fair, the host abhorred the prompter, and ended up rarely using it during the course...
...bought my first CDs before I even owned the player. The first was U2's "Rattle and Hum," and that one CD remains a favorite. Somehow, the live performances and the sheer majestic beauty of some of the band's finest studio moments still speak to me. I remember the era well, and remember being seized by "With or Without You," a song that was still playing often on the radio when that prized album was released...
...mountains, there is no way to lift your body and take it down. The men who are fighting on those ridges know that they are in a hole from which they cannot come out alive. There are a rare few like me who somehow by fate got the chance to leave the mountains...
...aren't exactly lies, but rather selective descriptions, the sort of speech that gets people to buy the things they never needed, and, in its supreme form, to buy things they didn't even want. In the college world, these are large, impersonal classes at any level that you somehow feel privileged to join. At Harvard, Yale or any of these places, the grim reality of a 700-person introductory class with the professor far in the distance and a group of relatively unresponsive TF's becomes an unfortunate reality, but for someone to be actually touting the size...