Word: tellingly
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...same, in a nation where 44 million people don't have medical insurance, and where a lot of the insured aren't happy with the care they get, there are probably more people rooting for an HMO fix than were ever waiting for a lunar landing. When voters tell pollsters that health care is among their top election-year concerns, that's because the frailty of the body is one issue that touches everybody--aging baby boomers, their vulnerable children, their fragile parents...
...Ackroyd endows Plato with several intriguing complexities, including, literally, a Soul with whom he converses. He senses that many of his historical judgments are mistaken and asks his Soul to tell him what the past was really like. Soul refuses: "I am not permitted to dwell on such things. You are becoming. I am being. There is a difference...
...tough guy should be aware that a fourth-grader's home life and his school life are often quite different. Your son may be getting the message at school that the way to be popular is through aggression. Or he may be fighting because he is scared. You may tell yourself that your son is fine because he has lots of friends. But Pollack's book details the harrowing experiences of "tough" boys who anesthetize themselves against their feelings and those of others. Last year's events in Littleton, Colo., showed how some boys lash out when they feel constantly...
...installing Millennium, thanks to its emphasis on home networking. But while Millennium is designed to be more stable than previous Windows, my home PC still crashes daily. Millennium is also supposed to speed up the time it takes your computer to start up. If it did, I couldn't tell...
...beautifully written work; Korder seems to have invented the very language of his 19th century characters--formalized yet colloquial, terse yet grandly poetic. "Shall we speak of profit?" urges Samuel Markham Hayes, the Pied Piper who lures Newman west. "You will see it fiftyfold, I guarantee it. Shall we tell of kings? Look into the glass, you will find the measure of one. Shall we dream of empires? We need not dream. Only reach out, sir. Reach out and close your fingers...