Word: straightforwardly
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Jackie Robinson comes to mind in this season--not of baseball but of politics--because not only did he embody the best of America while he fought off the worst but also he always expressed a straightforward, unapologetic, sublimely corny love of country that is no longer heard in presidential-election rhetoric. "I believe in the human race," Robinson said. "I believe in the warm heart. I believe in the goodness of a free society. And I believe that the society can remain good only as long as we are willing to fight for it and to fight against whatever...
...line, finding music is straightforward: you hear about new bands from friends or critics, see them on Leno or Letterman and buy their CDs from the stacks of new releases that are placed right up front in most record stores. Online, however, the degree of difficulty goes up. There are innumerable independent bands on the Web that aren't being written up in the mainstream press and aren't getting played on TV or radio. There aren't enough hours in the day for a single listener to get a handle on all these microbands. Unless you've got rabbit...
Undoubtedly, part of Napster's appeal is the free music it offers. But an even bigger attraction is that Napster actually works--easily in fact. Napster is streamlined, straightforward and self-explanatory. Napster puts power in the hands of the consumer--power to access an incomparable selection of MP3's, power to choose precisely which songs to download, all with amazing speed and ease...
...Haworth discovered a purpose. "It took me a while, but I finally found something that someone my size can be very good at," says Haworth. "It's an individual and straightforward sport: either you can lift the weight or you can't." Haworth uses her speed (she can run the 40-yd. dash in an NFL-like 5 sec.) and her power (she can jump an NBA-like 34 in.) to routinely, and repeatedly, lift a groaning bar with a couple hundred pounds. Buff football players pass by, not even bothering to hide their admiration. In competition she has lifted...
...most straightforward approach to fighting Alzheimer's plaques is to target their main ingredient, a protein called beta amyloid. Last summer scientists from Elan Pharmaceuticals, a biotech firm located in Ireland, reported that they had developed a vaccine that could shrink the plaques--at least in mice. Here the idea is to prime the immune system to treat amyloid proteins just as it would any foreign invader and target them for destruction. The concept is somewhat counterintuitive, since most researchers believe that at least part of the damage in Alzheimer's disease is caused by the immune system's overreaction...