Word: cravings
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...teachers, neighbors, Best-Buy employees—with arresting honesty. Vicki Donald, Grayson’s mother, is an avid pro-life Catholic who teaches high school Calculus. She is overweight and in her food-diary she writes, “I ask You to remind me when I crave a snack such as a ‘3 Musketeers’ to remember You on The Cross & how You had nothing to eat or drink.” She cooks frozen baked ziti for her family three times a week and hates her husband. Grayson’s father...
...Back when the region was poor and ravaged by war, Asia's citizens made an unspoken pact with their leaders, that economic progress could predate political reform. But, today, most Asians are fed and clothed, and a middle class flourishes. Where, then, is the accountability, transparency and justice Asians crave? Here are four areas in which the continent's democratic experiment is underperforming - and what Asia can do about...
...People crave reassurance and comfort during stressful economic times like this," said Dr. Martha Leibmann, a New Jersey-based therapist who has witnessed an increasing number of single patients venturing into cyberspace to find a partner. "They are afraid of being alone even in good times, but that fear is especially heightened nowadays." A poll recently conducted by Opinion Research Corp. and sponsored by popular dating site eHarmony backs up Leibmann's theory. Of 1,092 respondents, those who said they felt stressed by the current economy were 14% more likely to aim to be in a long-term relationship...
...feel I am. It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all. I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. I feel blessed that I can still do those things without too much worry. When there is a moment when I'm recognized, people...
...Congress are right to at least be wary of further extensions of the state in the economy, such as the proposed bailouts of the Big Three. Regulation and state control may seem attractive at a time of crisis, but eventually it creates problems of its own, and people will crave the economic freedom they surrendered. Eventually, even nationalistic Chinese bloggers will figure that...