Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ambitious dreamers may wonder: What would happen if one were to spend $80 million procuring all possible combinations--in other words, 80 million different tickets? Well, you could win $295.7 million if no one else picked the winning number. Or you could split it with, say, 10 other winners and lose $50 million. In this imaginary scenario, "you're guaranteed to win something," explains Arnold Barnett, a statistician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "but will you recoup your investment? That depends on how many other people...
...though there's no casino on board, it's also a floating crap game. The stakes are high: Disney will launch a second vessel, the Wonder, next June, and Eisner grandly hopes for a 10- or 12-ship fleet, sailing from Florida, California and the Mediterranean, within the next decade. He's betting that the cruise industry, which fills its cabins with discounted fares, can accommodate a competitor that charges 20% higher than the norm (starting at $860 for a three-day cruise, including airfare, compared with $648 on the Royal Caribbean line's Nordic Empress). The ship is heavily...
...tale of girl-crazy sailors on shore leave that he called Fancy Free. At a time when most Americans thought ballet meant women in tutus pretending to be birds, Fancy Free looked more like Fred Astaire than Swan Lake, and the music, a raucously jazzy score by another boy wonder named Leonard Bernstein, had MADE IN THE U.S.A. stamped on every page. Jerome Robbins took two dozen curtain calls that spring night in 1944, and never looked back...
...know these people? They live on your street. They collect your taxes. They are your relatives. Evil is not confined to one zip code. Among the child-rapists, incest perpetrators, abusive child-care providers, murderous adulterers and sadistic petty thieves, I wonder where all the normal people have gone. Does society continue to have moral standards? Do we need a formal honor code? Do we--and I say this with trepidation--need more vigilant government surveillance...
Sadly, the AP wire holds no lessons for the non-criminal, only a disgusting education in the telltale signs of child abuse that might save some child's life one day. As I scroll down the wire in fascinated horror, I wonder if any of these stories have a deeper meaning beyond the bestiality of some twisted souls. I don't think they...