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...afflicted tongue by building a global network of coaches, journalists and friends who tip him off to the location of the world's most gifted young players. This network explains how, without a single word of Turkish, Ronzone was delivered to the remote island home of Mehmet Okur, an unknown even in his home country, who became a burgeoning star for the Pistons. And how, with little more than qiu, he wrangled an invite to a cramped Shanghai apartment for the 18th birthday party of a 7-ft. 6-in. kid named Yao Ming...
When Olympic athletes were asked if they would take an unknown drug that could take up to 10 years off of their life, but would guarantee an Olympic medal, some 85 percent said yes. Such is the dramatic desperation for success that we would trade years of our life to be at the top (but then with 60 hour work weeks, the kids in daycare or in front of the TV, don’t we do that anyway?). The issue here isn’t necessarily the desire for success, but rather the scale by which we measure...
This year’s MacArthur Fellowship winners range widely, from a classical ragtime pianist who discovered a previously unknown Scott Joplin piece, to a mechanical engineer who applied the coordinated movement of biological groups to man-made machines...
...silence on the subject seems odd, as Huckabees is a film borne of its times. Its mix of surrealism and inanity (Russell cites Magritte and Buñuel as major influences) reflects what some audiences see in their surroundings today: a world facing fear and the unknown, shaken by seemingly random events and unsure how to proceed...
...DigiPortal's ChoiceMail ($40 at digiportal.com a scaled-down free version is also available) gets around that problem by checking IDs at the door to your In box. If the message is from someone already in your address book, the mail goes through, but if it's from an unknown sender, ChoiceMail sends out a challenge message. Spammers, as a rule, don't respond, but that long-lost friend you caught up with at a recent wedding probably will. You can create a separate mailbox to receive email notices from online stores; if spammers get hold of that mailbox...