Word: wallower
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...gerimis panjang, the Indonesian for "constant drizzle." A no-go area during the conflict - GAM rebels passed through there on their way between Aceh's east and west coasts - it is now a peaceful place. Children walk to school past paddy fields of ripening rice, while glistening water buffalo wallow in pools...
...something happened?" "What if somebody did this?" - or a practical utopia. We haven't had many practical utopias. Russell Jacoby, a professor out in California, wrote a book called The End of Utopia in 1999, which argues that the idea of imagining better futures has diminished, as we wallow more and more in our desperate state of societal and governmental decay. So I tried to revive the genre, so to speak...
Jackson, Michael • so much stuff about: go here to see what Lisa Marie Presley has to say, or here to see the will, or here for a thorough rehash of the child molestation trial, or just totally wallow in all of it here, or here, or here, or here, or here, or here, or here, or here, or here, or here, or here, and if that's not enough you can relive the entire week almost minute by minute here, or even read some smart pieces here, and here, or see the front pages of newspapers all over...
...Obama's economists search for pain-free, hassle-free solutions to our easy-way-out instincts, his rhetoric often aims to build our tolerance for pain and hassle. He urges us to snap out of denial, to accept that we're in for some prolonged discomfort but not to wallow in it, to focus on our values. That happens to sound a lot like "acceptance and commitment therapy," the latest advance in behavioral psychology. Instead of assisting smokers to ignore cravings and chronic-pain sufferers to think about other things - the old denial approach - acceptance therapy pushes patients to acknowledge...
...from their status as equal citizens. While female-focused activities are not necessarily a bad thing—organizations such as Women in Business and the Circle of Women, for example, enable real impact—Women’s Week seems to solely focus on allowing women to wallow in their sexuality...