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Find out what gives you goose bumps or chills and follow it through, allowing enough space to divert and reformulate when the vicissitudes of life get complex. If many things give you a thrill, of course, you will need to do some winnowing (here pragmatic concerns weigh far more heavily than they did when I graduated). I remember a professor at Berkeley poking his head in the TA room door saying “Anyone want a job at Yale?” Things are rather tighter now. My own research explores well-being across the life-span...
...older. Will our generation of Harvardians retain its slacker ways and persist in its procrastinatory habits? Will little Johnny’s birthday party be organized at the last minute for lack of other motivating interest? Will office presentations be thrown together at lunch and winged just for the thrill of it? Will an all-nighter be necessary to finish that Supreme Court decision...
...have to get your hands dirty in the lab, but he would do experiments, I remember, in this great suit, with gold cufflinks on display,” Mansfield says. “He would make explosions and then hide behind a plastic sheet. That was kind of a thrill...
Speaking with a forked tongue used to be a bad thing. Now it's apparently a rad thing among those who aren't content merely to pierce their tongue, eyebrows, nose, lips, nipples and other, more delicate body parts. Yes, a small number of thrill seekers and rebels--estimates range from 500 to 2,000--have slashed their tongues to try to give them a more serpentine appearance. And that has more than a few doctors and dentists worried...
...ring of suburban sprawl 24 km southwest of Madrid - joining the big-box Ikea and Media Markt that already line the highway - Xanadú is the largest shopping mall in Spain and the sixth largest in Europe. So far, Xanadú is drawing crowds of the curious, suburbanites and thrill-seeking kids. When it opened on a holiday weekend earlier this month, 250,000 visited in just three days. Inside the mall Spanish pop tunes blared from loudspeakers as families pushed strollers along marble floors, past shop windows for large Spanish chain stores like Zara and El Corte Ingl...