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...leaving college in droves to join Internet start-ups will (hopefully) find themselves returning in a few years to complete their degrees. That is because life is not about money. There, I've said it. Even in the Bay Area where I live, where 65 new millionaires are made everyday, life is not about money...
Combat survivors speak of the terror and the excitement of playing in a death match. Are we somehow incomplete as people if we do not taste that terror and excitement on the brink? "People are [taking risks] because everyday risk is minimized and people want to be challenged," says Joy Marr, 43, an adventure racer who was the only woman member of a five-person team that finished the 1998 Raid Gauloises, the granddaddy of all adventure races. This is a sport that requires several days of nonstop slogging, climbing, rappelling, rafting and surviving through some of the roughest terrain...
CHEERS! You may not need Dutch courage after all. Research on patients with "social phobia"--a disorder that leaves people terrified of everyday human interaction--shows that the idea of drinking may relieve anxiety just as well as actual drinking does. Patients in a study who thought they were guzzling vodka prior to speaking in public reported less fear and anxiety than those who thought they were handed a placebo--regardless of what was in the glass...
Half-truths and evasions are a part of everyday life. We don't, like Jim Carrey, when he's unable to prevaricate in Liar Liar, lean over to our lover and say, "I've had better." Manners are deception by another name. The same is true of politics. We say we want politicians to give us the unvarnished truth, but at the end of the day we really don't want to hear a detailed history of a candidate's bathroom coke snorts any more than, say, Iowans want to hear that subsidizing ethanol is a dubious use of government...
...many people were how often how truly disposable. We won't mention the six prostitutes who were my roommates in a dingy hostel this summer; that would be sensationalist, not to mention predictable. If I want to prove that people are discarded from our lives and minds everyday, it's not necessary to resort to the first, most literal example...