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...they have little rituals that they have to engage in just to make sure the game goes ok. They have to wear their lucky shirts or they have to eat chicken before every baseball match, things like that. There's a number of very famous ones - John McEnroe wouldn't step on a white line, David Beckham is notoriously superstitious, Tiger Woods has to wear red on a Sunday when he plays golf...
...leap upward. After I graduated from college in 1992, a car accident claimed my lower left leg. I chose full-time Paralympic competition in cycling and the Ironman triathlon for the next 15 years. Without the initial physical and emotional pain--followed by years of financial hardship--I wouldn't now be enjoying a new career as a professional speaker. True contentment comes from applying a solid work ethic toward our passions, not from the wealth this also happens to create. Paul Martin, NATICK, MASS...
...Classical music is often perceived as something which is traditionalist and perhaps even a little élitist," says Ed Sanders, a YouTube marketing manager. But the industry response, he says, was overwhelmingly positive. Google is paying all costs - a sum Sanders wouldn't disclose - including visa and travel expenses for the musicians, who come from 30 countries...
...declaring them for "Legal Workers Only," failed at the ballot box.) Like many others in the fight against illegal immigration, he sees himself as a reluctant warrior drawn to action by federal timidity. If the government had done its job and enforced laws against illegal immigration, he argues, he wouldn't have had to go through the initiative process. "Just start putting a few folks in jail and the world will change," he says...
...building a force that the U.S. intelligence community fears could double in the next 15 years," explains Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists. "Under this scenario, U.S. war planners worry that they would not be able to handle multiple contingencies if they have too few weapons: they wouldn't be able to deter Russia, China and potential regional actors simultaneously." If he's serious about even approaching zero, Obama will have to impose a strategic doctrine on the military that moves away from such Cold War paranoia and mistrust. As one former high-ranking U.S. State Department official...