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...6Biggest thrill as an ECACHL player...
...well as a mob of socially conscious contenders like Breyten Breytenbach, André Brink, Zakes Mda and dramatist Athol Fugard. Yet since the fall of the race-based regime and the triumph of democracy more than a decade ago, some South African writers and readers have worried that the thrill is gone, the edge lost, the fire dimmed. Like apartheid itself, those fears can now be swept into the dustbin of history. As it happens, four of South Africa's leading writers - Brink, Coetzee, Gordimer and Mda - have produced novels this year. Not all are great, but none is dull...
...exciting as intelligent design is in theology, it is a boring idea in science. Science isn't about knowing the mind of God; it's about understanding nature and the reasons for things. The thrill is that our ignorance exceeds our knowledge; the exciting part is what we don't understand yet. If you want to recruit the future generation of scientists, you don't draw a box around all our scientific understanding to date and say, "Everything outside this box we can explain only by invoking God's will." Back in 1855, no one told the future Lord Rayleigh...
...rearing. Tom Corbett of Huntington Beach, Calif., for example, had never been patient before he went flying with his grandkids. "I forced it on myself so I don't become anxious or annoyed," says the computer-systems architect, 58. "I don't want to associate anything bad with the thrill of flying." Ron Vickrey, 69, a retired executive in Port Orange, Fla., believes his daughters were too young when he taught them to fly. By 16, when they were eligible to get a license, they had lost interest. With his granddaughters, he plans to wait and start them...
...seem more enthralled by her feisty performances than by her now quavery voice. As Rob puts it, "Obviously, she's not up there belting it out. But, hey, she's up there doing it." And Estelle sees a very practical benefit to her gigs: "One of the things that thrill me is I have something in my advanced years that keeps me interested...