Word: superhumans
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...NASDAQ is down 40% from its all-time high and down 26% for the year. The Dow and broader market gauges are down for the year too. With so much damage on the books, it would require superhuman restraint by investors not to greet future rallies with some selling in a bid to get even and get out, or just take some risk off the table...
...emblematic of how the President has functioned when his back has been against the wall. When the times seem to be the worst, he functions the best. He comes up with brilliant ideas, very bold schemes, extraordinary insights. He summons forth from the depths of his very being these superhuman energies. Up until that point Gingrich had all the momentum. After that, Gingrich was on the run. It stopped the right-wing armada, which just a year before had looked unstoppable...
Chan plays Wong Fei-Hong, the legendary hero of the obscure martial art of drunken boxing, where the ingestion of lion-share quantities of alcohol empowers him with the ability to draw on his superhuman ability to build a higher intolerance to pain and fight many, many men simultaneously complete with a large dose of "Asian pink." As in many action films, Drunken Master revolves around a extremely thin plotline: During a mix-up on a train, Fei-Hong inadvertently takes home a stolen Chinese relic; he attempts to return the relic back while the British bad guys that stole...
...best way to do this, most analysts agree, is to persuade Tuesday night's crowd to warm to him while at the same time maintaining a presidential manner. And while Gore does not share his boss's superhuman ability to express empathy, he can, if pressed, maintain an interpersonal connection. And if he manages to balance a toned-down "I feel your pain" approach with a compelling command of specifics, the vice president could score a few points...
...Being superhuman, Alba says, can be a pain in the rear end. The other day, she hung for several hours from a building in a harness, sitting on two grips' heads between takes while the crew fiddled with the camera angles. She spent another marathon session hanging from a bar above the set, praying her hands didn't go numb before she dropped--"'catlike,' the director said"--into the frame. "'Then,' he said, 'You just glide over to the door.' I've never done this before! Dropping 6 ft. and not falling on my butt is an accomplishment...