Word: uplifts
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...partnership with the E.U., the U.S. should augment its "hard defense" capabilities with "soft defense" to help bring about global uplift. Unlike the attack on Afghanistan, this course of action will not yield immediate, measurable results. It will not improve NATO defenses overnight. But it will help make NATO worth defending...
...yourself--so you'll give your business to the Gap--would be dicey any year, much less after Sept. 11. Yet once again, the retailer's holiday ads were culturally pitch-perfect. On a stark set, the singers, covering Supertramp's plangent Give a Little Bit, gave a little uplift to a Christmas season that needed...
...world uplift benighted Afghanistan when that time comes? "There's not a specific plan," admits a State Department spokesman. However, in the back rooms of the world's capitals, an outline is beginning to emerge. The U.N. helped persuade the ousted King to convene a grand assembly, traditionally known as a loya jirga. Three weeks ago, Zahir, who has broad support among his fellow Pashtun, met with representatives of the Northern Alliance in Rome and made a deal under which together they would appoint a council of 120 representatives to select as many as 1,000 tribal elders and respected...
...from being besides the point, such songs had the power to soothe and uplift at a time when the nation was literally coming apart. Of course, some of the songs favored by the South sound misguided and tragic. ?I hates the Constitution/ This great Republic too/ I hates the Freedmen's Buro/ In uniforms of blue,? go the lyrics to ?Oh I?m a Good Old Rebel...
Yoga is fine, but if you want spiritual uplift with a little more noise, try beating on some bongos. African and Asian cultures have been practicing community percussion for thousands of years. Now Americans are fast joining "drum circles," informally or through organized centers, to reduce stress, connect with others or just jam. A recent study in the journal Alternative Therapies even found an increase in disease-fighting cells among participants in drum circles...