Word: worlds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tennis court, Monica Seles is so gentle that you almost have to laugh at the disparity. She giggles, she smiles, she's perpetually upbeat. By the end of my interview with her, I understood why Monica--one of the most famous athletes in the world--left her own message on my answering machine. It's because Monica has no fronts, no walls around her. She lives simply and honestly...
...that homeopathy is picking up the telephone with one's foot. But of course what the author really meant is that desiring passionately is an infinitely more important thing that being mindful of religion--that passionate desire overrides everything else. It's an idea as old as the world's first adolescent...
...concept that one's own desire is all that matters. I dislike this principle, not because I'm a law-and-order conservative but because it's a philosophy of vanity, and because vanity and happiness are incompatible. It's a wile, a deception that promises the world and delivers nothing, or, as C. S. Lewis put it, one in which the disciple will "find his heart's desire, and find despair...
...World-renowned architect Hans Hollein discussed his work--including a potential new building in Harvard Square--yesterday in front of an audience interested in his latest project...
...wait: Visa reports that roughly 8 cents of every $100 spent online is lost to fraud - more, if only slightly, than the 7 cents per $100 lost in the bricks-and-mortar world. So why shouldn't consumers be concerned? Answer: The perpetrators, by and large, are not hackers snatching credit-card numbers out of cyberspace. Typically, they tend to be the same old Dumpster divers and mail thieves they've always been, stealing card numbers off receipts and bills and then trying to pass as the cardholder. And if they succeed, who gets hurt? Not consumers. Federal law limits...