Word: mattered
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...Melancholy would dog him all his life, as would feelings of worthlessness, panic, high anxiety and frustration. It wouldn't matter that he married twice, raised five children, and became the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, attaining success on a scale no individual comic strip artist had ever known. Success fell off him. He was unable to take refuge in its rewards. With his first wife and five children, he moved in 1958 to a paradise among the redwoods of Northern California, where he briefly found happiness during a decade in which the work...
...starvation and economic collapse. And in its efforts to rejoin the real world, the North Koreans have the all-important support of South Korea, which is, after all, the state that those 40,000 U.S. troops are on the Korean peninsula to protect. But then there's the little matter of Pyongyang's missile program, which has long been the centerpiece of arguments for the National Missile Defense program so strongly favored by the Bush administration. Although intelligence experts disagree on whether and when North Korea would have the capacity or intent to threaten U.S. shores with missiles, North Korea...
...Rock sings on Wyclef Jean's song It Doesn't Matter...
...also said stock prices have a lot to do with inflation, which he targets daily. Justin Martin, author of Greenspan: The Man Behind Money (Perseus; 284 pages; $28), neatly points out that this is "a rather too fine distinction." But he spends even less time than Woodward probing the matter and then mysteriously concludes that such a strategy wouldn't work anyway. Millions of people have come to believe that Greenspan purposely moves stock prices. They're wrong, according to both authors. Yet we get no proof...
...INHALE In case anyone is still wondering, air pollution kills. A study shows that in large cities, every 1% increase in the concentration of a type of pollution known as fine particulate matter results, on average, in one more death a day. The fine particles, each less than one-fifth the width of a human hair, come from gasoline engines and power plants. Researchers urge the government to crack down and call on the rest of us to do our part. For starters: take mass transit, not your...