Word: superhumans
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...extent that I succeeded, I found in myself a desire to serve rather than to demand, an inexhaustible feeling of always having something to give and an utter certainty of the reality of the divine. It was like becoming privy to a set of fantastic secrets that gave one superhuman powers, stripped the world’s miasmas of their potency and made life joyful and whole...
...loss was tough to take for Fitzpatrick, who was brilliant in guiding the biggest comeback in school history last season against Dartmouth and similarly superhuman in relief during last week’s comeback at Brown...
...latest drop has made getting into Harvard as a transfer a nearly superhuman feat...
...kids become wild, wired, euphoric in a giddy and strained way. They laugh too loudly when they find something funny and go on long after the joke is over. Their play has a flailing, aggressive quality to it. They may make up stories or insist they have superhuman abilities. They resist all efforts to settle them and throw tantrums if their needs are denied. Such wildness often continues deep into the night--which accounts in part for the difficulty they have waking up in the morning. "They're like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," says Papolos, "which is how their...
...shortcut to enlightenment. According to religious scholars, there are some 2,000 "new religions" in Japan. They include Ho No Hana Sanpogyo, which urges the worship of feet, and Life Space, a group whose leader claims that he doesn't need to eat, bathe or sleep because of his superhuman powers. He is now serving a 15-year prison sentence for murdering a follower and keeping the mummified corpse in a hotel room...