Word: wakefulness
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...want to hear crips talking about opera, strippers on Renaissance paintings, UFC champions on Finnegans Wake. And I want to hear a 31-year-old guy from New Jersey with a New York Jets spit bucket give his take on wines. Strangely, I'm not alone on that last one. Gary Vaynerchuk's daily 15-min. video blog has 25,000 viewers who click onto his site each day to hear him describe--as he did a few weeks ago--a New World--style Spanish wine as "not obnoxiously over the top and fake as many of these types...
...also tackling other vigorous leisure activities including hiking and running marathons. Such pursuits embody the active later lifestyle that much of the boomer generation has come to adopt, and which has been embraced as the ad media's new image of older Americans at leisure. Certainly, semi-seniors wake up the morning after a vigorous outing with more aches and pains than they had in their 20s, but the physical benefits exceed the cost. Regular exercise lowers cholesterol and blood pressure, keeps weight down and improves mental outlook. This is all good news...
...want to thank Klein for his insightful call to action. I worry that our country will revert to a wounded isolationism in the wake of the Iraq war; nothing could be worse for the world and indeed for us. We face many problems, and the path will not be easy, but what great causes have not been worth effort and sacrifice...
...common method uses students' socio-economic status. That usually means determining whether they qualify for the federal program offering free or reduced-price meals to low-income kids. In 2000, Wake County, North Carolina, stopped considering race and started making assignments so that, among other things, no more than 40% of any public school's students qualified for free or reduced-price meals, according to Walt Sherlin, the assistant school superintendent who implemented the plan. Today, student performance is way up - the plan's main objective - while the schools are still diverse. But Sherlin says diversity is a mere coincidence...
Here's the sequence they say constitutes their wake-up call: the year 2006 witnessed Hamas's victory in Palestinian elections and Hizballah's summer war with Israel, both signs of a dramatic rise in Iran's influence; then came the coup de grace earlier this month, when Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip by force of arms, causing the collapse of the Palestinian national unity government. As the optimists now see it, the Sharm el-Sheikh summit on Monday has united Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas against Hamas (and its Iranian backer...