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...blunt with its reckonings. Good news comes like a breeze you feel but don't notice; the markets are up, the air is cleaner, we're beating heart disease. It is the bad news that comes with a blast or a crash, to stop us in midsentence to stare at the TV, and shudder...
...banister in Tikrit. Other imponderables--feats of nature like Hurricane Isabel, feats of sport like Lance Armstrong's fifth win--are wrestled to the page too. In one photo, Texans look warily at a globe-shaped piece of debris that fell from the Columbia. All anyone could do was stare and puzzle and grieve. In 2003 the battered world crashed again and again into our lives, and the rest of us were not unlike those Texans. The pictures invite you to stare and puzzle and think once again about the year that is about to become history...
...cleaning lady picking up the garbage strewn around me. My academic low points were definitely those sprints to my 9 a.m. Russian class in the same clothes I wore the day before, still getting there last after everyone who’d actually slept that night and having everyone stare at me as I rushed in out of breath. Then, the impotent feeling as my eyes drooped shut, my head nodded forward and I vaguely heard my teacher calling “Anya, Anya...
...mood on set, director Anthony Minghella displayed tintype photos of cast members, including Jude Law and Nicole Kidman. Zellweger "is not digging into her own biography as an actress," says Minghella in Interview, where the pictures appear. "She's creating it." Either that or it's the gritty stare of a gal who wants her Oscar...
Even in safer regions, older volunteers stare down tricky challenges. Feeling restless after her husband's death, microbiologist Bettylene Franzus volunteered in her Tennessee town but felt confined by the work. So she joined WorldTeach and now instructs Marshall Islands high schoolers in science. At 75, she's handling myriad problems, from logistical (her science books crumble in the salt air) to physical (the school has no janitor, so she swabs floors, sweeps coral dust and empties trash bins in her classroom) to intellectual (though she's a science instructor, her students' difficulty with English means she also teaches...