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CERN's clerisy of PhDs and Nobel Prize-winners tire pretty quickly of the public's near-erotic obsession with the destructive power of a machine they consider a harmless tool. But, there's no underestimating the thrill of the risk. Earlier this year, when I visited CERN, my tour group included a father and his slouching, intensely apathetic teenage son. It wasn't until the tour guide mentioned that a helium leak could fell a man on the spot that the youngster's eyes lit up, practically dancing with visions of white-coated scientists crumpling to the floor like...
Whether it was the smell of the barbeque in the crisp autumn air, the fight with a friend (or now enemy) over a “Crimson Crazies” t-shirt, or the thrill of watching the team run onto the field, the Harvard nighttime football game against Holy Cross encapsulated the school spirit Harvard often lacks. Even without the heroic comeback—the two touchdown dives that ignited fans—Harvard was a winner on Friday night because of the way the game rallied the campus community. But rather than sitting back and feeling proud about...
...hard to pinpoint the precise draw of reality TV: There's the vicarious thrill of talent competitions like American Idol, with its promise of stardom for shower-singers; there's the rare chance to feel superior by tuning in to watch someone being voted out of a room. Most powerful is that, at their intimate best, the shows can out-dramatize fictional TV drama. In The Real World's third season, 20-year-old Pedro Zamora, a gay educator, came out as HIV-positive to his housemates, one of whom harassed him; married a fellow AIDS educator on camera...
...Palin, the dispirited GOP glimpsed the glowing horizon of a brighter tomorrow, whether it's her or someone who comes behind her. Democrats who gathered four years ago in Boston to nominate a candidate they didn't really like, and found their thrill in the eruption of Obama onto the scene should relate...
...turned out to involve big risks, well, Obama likes big risks. This is a man who, with the cameras rolling in Afghanistan, elected to fire a basketball from 3-point range rather than move in for a layup. Who chose as his running mate Senator Joseph Biden, a verbal thrill ride who might say anything at any moment and very frequently does. Who - and this is the biggie - decided with just a couple of years in the Senate under his belt to take on the Clinton machine in a battle for control of the Democratic Party...