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...Have you considered taking a role in an American TV show? -D. Pitts, East Windsor, N.J.The terrible thing about network TV is that if you're successful, you're not doing anything else for six years. And although success is wonderful, I don't want that kind of success. You know, variety is the spice of my life. I have to keep changing everything. And I wouldn't enjoy being a TV personality...
...Kimunya said the economy would almost certainly slow down in 2008 because of the crisis. At a gala event to launch the IPO, Kibaki portrayed the offering as a step in the healing process, and urged Kenyans to "take advantage of this investment opportunity and take part in the success story that we have created together...
...services, it seems that practically every Kenyan has a mobile phone, and most who do are Safaricom customers. The company has made its buck by thinking small, allowing Kenyans to buy airtime in increments as little as 20 Kenyan shillings - about $0.30. It has found success by focusing on ways that even the simplest mobile phones can change people's lives. Airtime credit can be traded as currency and Safaricom also has a feature, called M-Pesa ("pesa" is Swahili for money) that allows people to use their mobile phones for money transfers...
...often been argued that the appeal of watching great athletes compete is that they seem to manage, in their attainment of the ostensibly impossible, to transcend mortality. Perhaps the Masters' success in fostering its own glorious illusion of immortality helps to explain the tournament's enduring popularity. One thinks of the call of the on-course ranger before a golfer hits a shot. At Augusta, the request seems to be directed at the passage of time itself: "Stand still please...
...palliative service at the University Hospital Center in Dijon, who repeatedly advised Sébire undergo treatment for the disease and the pain it brought on. Béal says specialists in at least three French hospitals offered Sébire an operation with a relatively good chance of success - upwards of 70% full success in most cases - though they couldn't promise no potential risk of death or incapacity, which Sébire would simply not accept. When she subsequently refused the treatment and medicine he and the other doctors had been recommending, Béal recalls...