Word: training
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is a red light right at the start. In 1994's Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, Peter Guralnick movingly, and with the greatest empathy, showed the unlikely and glorious shaping of a poor white boy from the Deep South into a musical demigod. Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley (Little, Brown; 767 pages; $27.95), the second and concluding volume, is a long coast on the dark downside, a story of ugliness and indulgence and encroaching desperation...
...technique does not have to be limited to infectious diseases, however. It may even be useful for conditions such as Type I diabetes, in which a patient's own immune system destroys essential insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. For diabetics, eating insulin-bearing tubers could eventually train the body's defenses to stop reacting to insulin as if it were a foreign material, all without the bother--or risk--of a needle. --By Alice Park...
...September with a 3.61 grade-point average; having taken the SATs three weeks ago, she is currently trying to decide whether college makes sense for her. "I always live with no regrets," she says, reflecting on the past year and, implicitly, Lipinski. "I can't say I didn't train hard enough because I did. People say you change after the Olympics, but it's not that way for me--no matter how many medals I win, no matter what I do. You always have to focus on something, and for me, that's skating." --Reported by Alice Park/New York
...things that I really like to use. Here's a short list of stuff I found and loved this year. At the top of my chart is my pair of Bang & Olufsen Form 2 headphones ($100). As someone who commutes by rail and therefore needs to drown out the train shouters on their cellular phones, I lusted after this pair of headphones for my Walkman for years. Comfortable as velvet earmuffs, the Form 2s deliver a luscious, fat sound. Plus they keep me at the forefront of style: the sleek, flat headphones are in the Museum of Modern...
...Groups (PIRG). PIRG provided me-and, every year, provides hundreds of recent college graduates-with a mechanism to bridge the gap between working for the common good and being successful. It just depends on how you define success. Personally, I have been able to dramatically increase recycling in Massachusetts, train hundreds of Citizen activists in lobbying techniques, educate thousands of Massachusetts residents about pressing social issues, and more...