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...others cautioned that such a strategy could stifle the spirit of intellectual diversity that the College encouraged...
...happening. Wowereit and his party's cronies typify "old Europe." The Americans are right. Europe is like an old man: totally lacking the strength to tackle the challenges of the new millennium. Albert Brenner Bad Voeslau, Austria London's mayor Ken Livingstone solves problems with brio in the energetic spirit of New York City's legendary Fiorello La Guardia. Livingstone deals with the problems of cars, buses and the underground with pragmatism and technocratic efficiency, using American-style executive authority. Londoners have warmed to his common sense. Martin Grey High Wycombe, England It was rather sad that your story...
Within this milieu of women's refuges, fortnightly pensions, brutality and exasperation, Sayer manages not only to survive but to grow. The other side of drifting is freedom and a spirit of adventure. She attends a "free school" in Melbourne where the subjects include creative writing, Indian studies and weaving. The people she meets there draw her out of herself and into the world with speed and direction. Velocity is intoxicating - but don't even think of matching the drinking in it. And heed the advice of a dying man, who advises Sayer to "never mix morphine with metho...
...feeling what it's like to be on your feet that long." But the most important training is mental. Ultramarathoners must be prepared to push through the wall of exhaustion, over and over again. "The human body can only carry you so far," Karnazes concedes. "After that, the human spirit is going to take over." Here's hoping your spirit has calves of steel...
...Rank of Hong Kong in a new survey measuring the entrepreneurial spirit of 35 world economies by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 10 Rank of Shenzhen, the mainland Chinese city across the border from Hong Kong...