Word: explainers
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...totally different level of responsibility," he says, "and I am not ready for it." Just running for parliament was hard enough. "For the first two weeks," he recalls, "I regarded it as a personal humiliation. People watch you too closely. They want you to answer their questions, explain things, joke, sing and dance. I felt like a clown...
...collects many fewer mistakes than his rivals he can't explain. He mentions better nerves, good concentration, light weight training and stamina, which he gets from jogging with his wife Anke, also a shooter. "The better your stamina is, the easier you can compensate the adrenaline output, to quiet your pulse and breath," he notes. A shooter must get rid of the adrenaline with almost no movement. Schumann had a lot of adrenaline to get rid of during a 2 1/2-year winning streak that ended in 1997. "Don't remind me of that drama," he sighs. "Every competition was like...
Which may help explain why Amazon itself acts like a hyperactive kid at the holidays--forever playing with something new. Last week Bezos got into the automobile business through a joint venture with Greenlight.com Customers can now order an Audi or a Chevy alongside electric drills and Oprah books. And it doesn't stop there. This week Amazon is set to open its Paris-based online store, Amazon.fr, a brave bid to raise international sales despite the fact that less than 1% of book sales in France are done online--and not for want of dotcoms...
...called the "Hygiene Hypothesis," and researchers invoke it to try to explain why the number of children who develop asthma has grown so dramatically over the past three decades. Bolstered by a handful of studies, the basic idea is that modern urban society is too clean for the kids' own good. A hundred years ago, children's immune systems would have faced all kinds of bacterial and viral infections. Today those immune systems don't know what to do in our supersanitized environment, so they wind up attacking pollen, dust mites and other usually innocuous substances instead. In the worst...
...James Emswiler, the authors of Guiding Your Child Through Grief (Bantam). "Death education should be like sex education," they say. "Of course, you'll want to make sure your child understands what dead means (that the body doesn't work anymore--no feeling, no seeing, no breathing) before you explain subjects like cremation or embalming...