Word: thingness
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...your year of living with no impact on the environment, what was the hardest thing to give up? Michelle: For me the hardest thing was giving up the caffeine. The brutal and ugly and murderous caffeine withdrawal - that was tough. And I wasn't able to see my family because they don't live locally, so it was great on day 366 to be able to get on a plane with my daughter Isabella and go see my parents...
...Colin: I find it interesting that everyone asks that question. But the surprising thing to me is that instead of how hard it was to live environmentally, we discovered how joyful it was. We found that by creating space in our lives in terms of letting go of stuff, cutting out the TV screens, we had more time for relationships - more time to spend with each other and with friends. More time just reading books or going to the park and going swimming. We were eating better and getting more exercise. That's what really struck...
...show, called “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” will feature content from 24 course lectures recorded by WGBH, a Boston public broadcasting station, during the 2005-2006 school year. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...saddest thing about being so poor is not that you don’t have enough clothes to wear or that you don’t have as many things as somebody else,” Jain said. “It’s that you don’t have any opportunities, you have no chances to get yourself out of this position, and you don’t even know what’s available...
...preceding decade. It all revolved around what I call an estrangement between the people running the departments and agencies and the people who were actually operational. [Former FBI Director] Louis Freeh could identify terrorism as a major threat, but that imperative got lost somewhere in the bureaucracy. The same thing happened throughout the government. It's really foolhardy to single out individual agency heads as we tend to do in our culture when really, I think the problem is deeper - the problem is the difficulty of orchestrating a change in mission when government is structured a certain...