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...Most of this feels as though it's in real time. You stick with the tempo of the game and let the action do the talking. That's the great thing about sports. It's not scripted. But I'll tell you, I had a sleepless night the day before precisely because it's not scripted. What if Kobe got into early foul trouble or was thrown out of the game? That would have been disastrous. (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...marketing that came from the manufacturing and the sales and service that came from the dealer. That bond has been broken in an especially short period since approximately a third of the distributors of cars for Chrysler and GM will lose their franchises. It is the only financially expedient thing to do, but the government is, once again, encouraging an action that will put tens of thousands of taxpayers out of jobs. By placing the large car companies on short leases, the Administration is insisting that they destroy decades-old relationships with suppliers, shareholders, debtholders, and dealerships...
...British-Dutch team, led by polar climatologist Jonathan Bamber of the University of Bristol, long suspected that the old estimates were a little alarmist. For one thing, in previous studies, climatologists had defined the area that would be most susceptible to a collapse too widely, including, for example, the Antarctic Peninsula, which the paper calls "both topographically and glaciologically distinct from the WAIS," mostly because it lies largely above sea level. Its higher elevation would put it out of reach of coastal meltwater, keeping its ice cover primarily intact. What's more, even within the areas of the WAIS that...
...blanket about it. But there’s something even more miserable about thinking that our happiness can be defined by the jobs we choose, or what we eat for breakfast, or how many miles we run each week. Freud himself pointed out that the only thing normal is pathology, which makes applying a bell-curve-style prescription for joy more than a little reductionist. Even if all the indicators in our lives point to success, a craving for something indefinable may persist. Aristotle, for instance, thought that happiness was found in living well, and living well meant living with...
There are some limits. In certain places you can't make fun of the leader of the country. The most free is Lebanon. They say, "Make fun of anyone - but if you make fun of Hizballah, you're on your own." The other thing is religion. Not just Muslims, but no making fun of Jews, no making fun of Christians...