Word: fears
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Though everyone hopes for a long life, most fear old age and the decline of body and brain. "The mind does change," says Hamlin, "but it is not inferior. It is different." Each of us needs to appreciate our mind as it is instead of as it once was. Teens who can talk, listen to music and surf the Web at the same time are admirably adept at taking in many bits of information, but they may not connect them in meaningful ways. Speed, after all, isn't everything. Though less swift, the older person continues to absorb new material...
...McCain can help it. Despite the stinging loss, he went roaring out of South Carolina vowing that "our crusade grows stronger" and pitting "my optimistic and welcoming conservatism" against Bush's "negative message of fear." He added, "I want the presidency in the best way, not the worst way." Bush, stripped now of all his laid-back affectation, wants it any way he can get it. He's very good at gettin...
...burden they represent, and what kind of gift. Sure, his father chain-smoked and drank too much, and his grandfather was a cusser, but both walk on water across the pages. His inheritance is both sword and shield: McCain too has his flaws, but he admits to them without fear because like his fathers before him, he did his service and, against all odds, came back a hero...
...pouring in from U.S. venture capitalists. There are 50,000 Chinese domain names. By some calculations, China will have the second largest population of Web surfers in the world, after the U.S., by 2005. Such a frenetic buildup would delight most governments. It terrifies Beijing's officials, who fear the Net will vaporize their power over the masses. "It is not like anything they have ever experienced before," says Ding...
...early 1980s Lloyd's had begun to fear not only the onset of asbestos losses but future litigation arising from the recruitment drive. Its answer was to persuade Parliament to grant the company immunity from lawsuits by the Names--something the lawmakers might not do were they to get wind of the insurer's financial problems. And so, according to the London suit, Lloyd's duly set out to cook the books. The complex scheme allegedly involved closing the books prematurely on growing losses to conceal them...