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...hectic environment immediately led one to wonder: How can anybody possibly learn under these conditions? The answer, of course, is that they cannot. Students’ mental aptitude and willingness to learn becomes irrelevant. The level of activity and disorder fosters an atmosphere where you literally cannot hear yourself think, let alone comprehend new ideas and concepts...
...pizza ruins you for the likes of Domino's or Pizza Hut. There's a night-and-day technical difference between the crisp but pliable, barely yielding quality of fresh pizza crust, especially with the telltale little scorch marks that come from passing through a real oven, and the Wonder-bread-like dough of its assembly-line rivals. As someone who grew up in Atlantic City, N.J., no pizza mecca, I still love the traditional "low-moisture" (i.e., greasy) mozzarella we all remember, the kind that forms an appetizingly orange compound as it merges with the sauce. I couldn...
...lost this perspective. I needed to regain it. Yes, I would be behind my class and would graduate a year late. Yes, I would miss all my activities and friends. But after experiencing repeated depressive episodes and existential crises, I decided it was useless to wonder what I was doing with my life. I needed to decide what I was doing with my life...
...Such a movement causes the head to rock away from oncoming traffic. One convert to Hosea's method is Mike Kulow, a veteran youth coach who says his Murrieta, Calif., Pop Warner league, which has 450 players, witnessed only one whiplash injury this past season. "Man, do I wonder, if I had this education about the consequences in the past, could I have curbed injury?" asks Kulow. "Absolutely." (See TIME's football covers...
...then painted an image of a political show trial by declaring his troubles were due to "the dogged determination of one man, Nicolas Sarkozy" - who, de Villepin reminded journalists covering the trial, had once pledged to "hang up whoever did this to me from a butcher's hook". Little wonder, then, that even in claiming to turn the page, de Villepin made his view clear that he'd survived Sarkozy's political assassination attempt. "I salute the courage of the tribunal, which allowed justice and law to prevail over politics," the silvery-haired de Villepin said after the verdict...