Word: took
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...stationary bike, the keyboard on his lap. He did not cry out. He took a dozen deep, cleansing breaths and dismounted and set the keyboard on the floor. He sat down in front of his computer and switched on Audio and said, "Voice activation." There were two confirming beeps...
...turbulent Jobs, an adopted child who spends his life creating, and then rejecting, alternative identities, in true '60s seeker style. "One of the things that most fascinates me about him is his ability to blend Eastern philosophy with Western business techniques," says ER's Noah Wyle, who took the role after watching the PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds. "Nowadays every high-powered agent has Sun Tzu on his desk; he was the first person I know of who did that." Apple, for Jobs, was a messianic imperative: give the world a Mac, and the rest of the Flower Power...
Some heroes took a giant leap for all humankind by journeys that were lonely by definition. The flight of Charles Lindbergh and the climb of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay showed where people can go on the planet if they have the wit and endurance. Their journeys were inward too, as all heroic endeavors are, but few in the century were more so than those undertaken by Anne Frank in her diary of the Holocaust, or Bill Wilson, who pioneered the 12-step approach to self-help that has transformed millions of lives...
What does it take to be a major league baseball player? Great hand-eye coordination, lots of power and a bottle of androstenedione or creatine. At least that's what the manufacturers of these dietary supplements would like you to believe. Just look at Mark McGwire, who took both substances last year and cranked out a record 70 home runs. And Sammy Sosa, who took creatine and came in second in the great slugfest of 1998. They must know something the rest...
...Autobiography moves between the late '30s (the Moscow trials, Hitler's incursions into Austria and Sudetenland) and Stalin's life story, which Lourie shrewdly reimagines--a biography enacted within a formula: Darwinism + Leninism = Stalinism. The tough little Georgian survivor, emerging from the Tiflis seminary as a militant atheist, took up petty crime and apprenticed himself not only to Vladimir Ilyich but also to "my hero, my model, my rival," Ivan the Terrible: "Ivan understood the great secret: Cruelty is the cutting edge of history. The deciding factor is always the greatest degree of cruelty most intelligently applied...