Word: switchings
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...grandfather? Never thought I'd be a grandfather. You know, when you're in your 30s, you don't think about the end of your life. And I didn't think about it so much when I got to 40. But when I turned 50, it was like a switch went off. All of a sudden you think, boy, how fast the last 20 years went. You realize how important life is, how short life is and what's going to happen after life. Is that it? Or is there something beyond life that God has for us? The Bible...
...Labor leader Kim Beazley will have a difficult job convincing Middle Australia that the government has abandoned them and that his party of the workers is also the champion of the upward mobility. Perhaps he'll flick the switch to envy, like his predecessor Mark Latham. At the very least, Beazley must be hoping the new workplace regime makes life less comfortable for working families by the time the election is called...
Many studies, for example, fail to distinguish among degrees of spanking (a swat on the bottom is very different from 10 lashes with a switch). Furthermore, the problems some kids who are spanked have in later life might have to do more with their personalities--the behaviors that got them spanked in the first place--than with the punishment. New research indicates that when it is not lumped together with serious, abusive forms of corporal punishment, spanking doesn't look so bad. In a longitudinal study of 168 white, middle-class families, Diana Baumrind and Elizabeth Owens, psychologists...
...noticed is something that most gamers have long ago forgotten: to nongamers, video games are really hard. Like hard as in homework. The standard video-game controller is a kind of Siamese-twin affair, two joysticks fused together and studded with buttons, two triggers and a four-way toggle switch called a d-pad. In a game like Halo, players have to manipulate both joysticks simultaneously while working both triggers and pounding half a dozen buttons at the same time. The learning curve is steep...
...future, career, and interests. Although this system will force students to start thinking about these critical choices early on, it is absurd to assert that a 14-year-old is prepared to make this decision. Indeed, many college students and adults have difficulty making such decisions and switch between fields repeatedly before finding their true calling...