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About drinking your own urine - you talk in the book about people who hallucinate while running or become disoriented and exhausted. You say running is really easy, but obviously ultra-running is an extreme sport. It's very hard, and people go through a lot. Why do you think people push themselves that hard? A really smart scientist, Dr. Dennis Bramble at the University of Utah, said to me, "Recreation has its reasons." It's an instinct we have inside of us. We push ourselves that far because we're hard-wired to want to remind ourselves that...
...hard-luck stories. The public ruthlessly booted out 2 Grand, a grandfather-granddaughter singing duo, even after 76-year-old John Neill confided that "this is the first time I've felt happy ... since I lost my wife." And Boyle, the bookmakers' favorite and an international talk-show darling since her endearingly awkward audition clip clocked up more than 100 million views on YouTube, lost...
...What keeps companies investing in animation and makes the genre the most reliable in today's market is the fact that cartoon features tend to do terrific business worldwide. (Action films with little talk also hit it big in foreign climes; language-dependent American comedies usually tank.) Box-office reports focus narrowly on the Sunday numbers in U.S. and Canadian theaters. But euros and rupees and yen are good money too, and sometimes movies that aren't quite blockbusters in North America make the bulk of their gross abroad...
...embezzling funds), but we all have to chart our own course through the perilous waters that mark our lives. No doubt your _____ (grade inflation, public school education, prison job training) has equipped you as well as it did me to meet these challenges.Now I’d like to talk a little about your future. You’re all very successful individuals, and as we all know, success breeds success. This is especially true if you’re ____ (Harvard football, on the honor roll, a repeat offender). But there are always places for improvement, like ____ (sports travel budgets...
...winning margin with a two-run homer in the fourth inning. The players and coach I interviewed afterward were so excited and happy that they thanked my fellow beat writer and me for our work throughout the year. In my experience, players and coaches, unsurprisingly, are better to talk to after a win than after a loss, so talking to them after they had just won a championship was fantastic...