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...point, skimming the Louisiana marshes in a helicopter, Rushton vividly describes the swamp below, floating "like a pad of lilies anchored in place by the most fragile and tenuous of roots...
Lately, however, science has begun to nose around in that shifty terrain it so long neglected. Tenuous scientific probes of the happiness phenomenon, as an aspect of mental health, were organized as long ago as the 1960s. Perhaps because happiness itself was all but out of style in the days of Viet Nam, urban riots and the burgeoning dope culture, the trend never took off. Only now is it becoming clear that our gladness is likely to be subjected to the same methodical research and analysis that has been lavished for generations on our madness. The signs that happyology...
...after hanging tenaciously to its tenuous one-goal lead for nearly 24 minutes, the Big Green produced the Big Screw-Up. Coach George Crowe chose the worst possible time to change both his line, and defensemen on the fly and gave UNH a three-on-nothing breakaway. Gaudet made a chest-save on Ralph Cox, but Bob Francis (son of Emile) flipped the rebound past his left shoulder to knot the contest at one apiece...
...generally agree that the Chinese invasion of India had a limited goal: to establish control over a long-disputed desert plateau called the Aksai Chin. For centuries, caravans linking Tibet with China's remote Sinkiang province had traversed the area, whose border had never been clearly marked. So tenuous was the Indian presence that it took two years for India's border police to discover a paved highway that the Chinese had constructed...
Andrews' sophomore year marked the start of a steady but tenuous relationship with the varsity team. Andrews recalls. "I had a good camp, but I didn't think I had a prayer of making the varsity. I was content to play J.V. I guess Billy (Cleary) liked some of the things I did. I saw my name on the varsity roster the day he made the cuts. Jeez, I was high as a kite. I didn't touch the ground for a few days. It was the biggest surprise of my life. I ended up practicing with the varsity...