Word: wanderings
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...BECKER IS SPEEDING DOWN THE HIGHWAY, rushing to catch a flight to Los Angeles for the Academy Awards, during which he'll wander about with a television crew and draw huge ratings back in Germany. Earlier today, however, at a gathering with Völkl retailers on a tennis court at a Miami resort, he picked up a racket and swung it behind and over his head, tossing an imaginary ball. "It's still there," one retailer said. Becker nodded...
...more wall of safety has been breached, one more belief shattered. Japan is a country in which, despite rising rates of violent crime, people generally feel safe enough to let six-year-olds ride the Tokyo subways by themselves, and schoolchildren wander about on school trips without chaperones. The country's murder rate, for example, is one-sixth of that in the U.S. Yet, ever since the sarin-gas subway attacks at the hands of a religious cult in 1995 left 12 people dead and thousands injured, Japan has become increasingly aware that something is wrong with its well-ordered...
...dreaded Borg and turned into one of them: half-man, half-machine. Part of my face and most of the top of my head are covered by evil-looking electronic gadgetry; there is more scary stuff strapped to my left wrist and around my waist. Getting into character, I wander around a giant shopping mall in Fairfax, just outside Washington, D.C., frightening the living daylights out of small children. It's all I can do to stop myself from intoning, like the captain of the Enterprise: "I am Locutus. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over...
...culture exporter. And when you're exporting music, movies and TV shows, other countries are interested in what you think and who you are. The upshot is a state that confidently and pragmatically goes about its business--even though much of that business is on the mainland. To wander through Taipei or tour the countryside is to realize that the hoary topic of reunification is not so much an issue as an irrelevance, a political parlor game fraught with linguistic and semantic tricks played out in Beijing, Washington and Taipei...
...refreshing to read that people are realizing that kids need to be kids. I cringe when I see small children walking home from elementary school with full backpacks. Play and time to be creative and wonder and wander, and time to be with family members, are so important for children's intellectual growth--and they wouldn't hurt us adults either. MARLA B. RAMIREZ Ukiah, Calif...