Word: thrilled
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...alert for yet another new text message. But I'm betting that Twitter will get a lot noisier before netizens move on to the next new thing. Why? Because Twitter targets the same crowd that digs MySpace and, frankly, that site is getting stale. We cyberjunkies need a new thrill, and what better than a service that combines social networking, blogging and texting? Dozens of other companies are trying to do the same thing with services like VelvetPuffin and Google's Dodgeball. But only Twitter has figured out how to make it easy...
...literature, when your seventh-grader reads The Old Man and the Sea, a teacher could tick off the references to Christ's Passion--the bleeding of the old man's palms, his stumbles while carrying his mast over his shoulder, his hat cutting his head--but wouldn't the thrill of recognition have been more satisfying on their/own...
...Galactic Joyride In your article on the thrust to develop space tourism [March 5], you didn't point out the enormous amount of energy required for a brief thrill ride to space. The unmanned space program has brought advances in communications technology and defense systems. The sole significant justification for manned spaceflight is more spaceflight. Manned spaceflight for exploration's sake is one thing. Trying to justify it on economic grounds is another. John Day Powell, Ohio...
...Galactic Joyride In your article on the thrust to develop space tourism [March 5], you didn't point out the enormous amount of energy required for a brief thrill ride to space. The unmanned space program has brought advances in communications technology and defense systems. The sole significant justification for manned spaceflight is ... more spaceflight. Manned spaceflight for exploration's sake is one thing. Trying to justify it on economic grounds is another. John Day, Powell, Ohio...
...After the war, whenever we passed the old Mukhabarat HQ, my driver and I got a childish thrill by pointing to it, for no good reason. It is only the smallest of many, many freedoms that Iraqis gained after the U.S.-led coalition toppled the dictator. They also got the right to vote, satellite TV, cellphones, the ability to travel out of Iraq, and a new education system that doesn't brainwash children into worshiping Saddam...