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...problem with heroism is that it can't be grown hydroponically. Heroes do not sprout through training programs. They do not blossom through a series of interviews or bloom from an advanced degree program. Instead, heroes emerge out of circumstances that call for heroism. They are often the people from whom we expect the least, the people who shock us by rising to the occasion. True heroism exists only in times of crisis...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: A Governor Cries in the ARCO Forum | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...taken a backseat to a different dish in the land of Liege, at least according to an interactive information service. If one is to believe the data accumulated by Scoot, a venture that provides toll-free information both online and over the phone, what really makes Brussels sprout is information on where to score a hot, saucy... pizza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Flanders, Plain -- or With Pepperoni | 11/10/1998 | See Source »

Maybe the media is not to blame. Maybe journalists don't really cultivate the crops so attentively, and the crops simply sprout like weeds in the nation's garden. Simpson killed his wife and went on a low-speed chase. Clinton fooled around and lied about it, and the independent counsel insisted on finding out about his transgressions. Such weeds are too noxious to ignore, even if journalists would rather nurture some other crop...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: All the News That's Fit to Sell | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

While Smith says NAAFA advocates healthy foods and exercise, you couldn't find a jumping jack or a bean sprout at the march. But 1) they were out in the healthy California sun and 2) there was nothing to eat but a few cookies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bulge And The Beautiful | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

Dubious or not as a triumph of foreign policy, the canal has functioned perfectly for most of the century, and still does so to the honor of our technological reputation, although its control has reverted to the country T.R. allowed to sprout alongside, like a glorified right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theodore Roosevelt | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

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