Word: warriorism
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From the moment of its release on Dec. 18, James Cameron's Avatar has monopolized the top box-office spot like some gigantic truck that not only takes up two lanes but also drives everyone else off the highway. To stop a road hog, send out a road warrior: the one and only Mad Max, Mel Gibson, a bona fide movie icon playing a trademark haunted-hero role in Edge of Darkness, his first starring role since Signs...
Meanwhile, more players are becoming enlightened. Once again, consider those tortured looks from Hadley, the Colgate senior who was shocked by the images of damaged brains of dead football players. Hadley loves football and doesn't regret a single hit or his four concussions. He holds a warrior bond with his fellow players. "It's bothering me that I'm telling you all this," Hadley says after outlining his concussion history and explaining how he decided to play through headaches until he couldn't remember the plays. "It's like I'm betraying a fraternity," he says...
...taken from them by the Spaniards and then the Chilean government, have engaged in a wave of arson attacks. Their assaults - torching forests, hijacking forestry trucks, seizing rural ranches - have created Chile's worst security crisis in decades. (See a story about a 120-year-old Mapuche warrior, from TIME's archives...
...meantime, studies on the effect of soy on breast-cancer recurrence and mortality have been conflicting, with some showing that it can reduce risk, while others show an elevated rate of recurrent disease among frequent consumers of soy. (See breast cancer's fundraising warrior...
...says Marshéle, "you need an environment where the warrior can be vulnerable." Typically, that's not a military base. Waddell speaks of what he terms a "break in the covenant" between those who volunteer to fight and the society that sent them into battle and then forgot about them. "It's not enough to give soldiers free tickets to NASCAR races," he says. "It has to be something more, a deeper way of honoring the sacrifices these men and women have made...