Word: turneritis
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...TURNER Co-Chair of the Nuclear Threat Initiative It is imperative that we work with all our global partners-especially the United Nations-to ensure the planet's health, safety and security. The next President should be actively seeking friends everywhere; we cannot afford any more enemies...
...science hasn't entirely discredited it. But the weight of evidence suggests it's flimsy. While depression has been shown to affect outcome in some conditions, there's no clear link with cancer. "One myth for sure is that avoiding stress and being positive has survival benefits," says Jane Turner, a Brisbane psychiatrist who treats young adults with cancer. "Most people find that being told to be positive is a burden, and one woman commented that people only say that to avoid hearing how hard it really...
She’s the type of mom who stays up late engrossed by black-and-white films on the Turner Classic Movies channel. She listens to Broadway musical soundtracks nonstop (admittedly, I do too) and when I turn up the Top 40 radio station in the car to dance to Usher in my seat, she shakes her head and asks how I can listen to such nonsense. It gives her a headache...
Flash forward: at the helm of his yacht Tenacious, Ted Turner battled 40-ft. waves for four hours in a storm that claimed 19 lives and disabled 210 of 302 vessels in a four-day ocean race in 1979. Turner not only lived to successfully launch an unlikely venture--a 24-hour cable news network called CNN, in 1980--but also won the sea race and later said that even during the worst of the storm his mind was on finishing first...
From Fitch, spurred to invent the steamboat by a mortal need for speed, to Turner, driven by the thrill of risk and winning, American inventors and innovators during the U.S.'s march to economic dominance in the past two centuries have thrived in difficult--even deadly--conditions. In They Made America (Little, Brown; 496 pages), author, journalist and immigrant Harold Evans celebrates the near mythic lives of 70 unique thinkers who beat long odds to realize a dream and, in their day, to improve life for the masses...