Word: temperment
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...this feels different. There's a ripple of excitement by the dairy goods, a frisson by the freezers, as word spreads: Bertie is here. The people of Navan, northwest of Dublin, respond to their Taoiseach - the official title of Ireland's Prime Minister - not with fatigue or ill temper, but with an awe and affection usually reserved for rock stars. As Bertie Ahern kicks off his campaign for elections expected within weeks, he remains startlingly popular for a man seeking a third consecutive term. And if there's a reversal and he finds himself...
...What is not in dispute is that since he became leader of the Australian Labor Party on Dec. 4, Rudd has set the temper of national politics. In the published opinion polls, the 49-year-old Queenslander has hurtled past Howard early in an election year; Labor leads the Coalition by an improbable 59% to 41%, on a two-party basis, according to the latest Newspoll. On the poll's question of who is better to lead the country, Rudd is ahead of Howard 48% to 36%. Rudd's job description, as he told reporters in Sydney before embarking...
...other challenges for the single-task-oriented male brain. And technological advances-from vibrating Blackberries to the addictive allure of high-speed Internet access at home-have made it all the harder to detach from work. Finally, when you consider the retrenchments and economic wipeouts that have set the temper of their working lives over the past decade-the financial crisis of 1997, the dotcom implosion of 2000, the downturn in the wake of SARS in 2003-it's easy to see why Asian men have prioritized work. "Since 1997, it's not been possible to get a bonus," says...
...fear, they under-activated for disgust. The researchers believe that what they've found in these impairments is a biological marker of bipolar disorder that could be the makings of a test. "We're excited about this because the potential is huge," says Lagopoulos, "but we have to temper our enthusiasm" until further research can confirm these differences as statistically bullet-proof...
...output by not one ounce. But drawing on the hundreds of millions of net worth in the Kodak Theatre, they pull out lunch money to buy ecological indulgences. The last time the selling of pardons was prevalent--in a predecessor religion to environmentalism called Christianity--Martin Luther lost his temper and launched the Reformation...