Word: walkerism
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...retirement party at MIT's Walker Memorial on Dec. 10 featured much banter and humor...
...DIANA WALKER and P.F. BENTLEY, TIME contributing photographers, have been covering presidential campaigns for the magazine since 1984, and their experience shows. "They get the moment without interfering," says director of photography Michele Stephenson. "They're incredibly accomplished at being unobtrusive." They're incredibly accomplished, period. Walker has taken five first-place honors from the White House News Photographers Association, while Bentley has won the campaign category of the Missouri School of Journalism's Picture of the Year competition every year since 1984. "Both Diana and P.F. use their cameras to take us where no one else goes," notes Stephenson...
...this sort of unintended backlash, try to keep your proscriptive pledges focused on specific aspects of relationships. Here are two such resolutions I'm considering: "Stop turning down dinner invitations from my brother and sister-in-law with the transparent excuse that they're rerunning my favorite episode of Walker, Texas Ranger that night" and "stop silently exulting or actually chortling when another parent tells me that his daughter had enormous difficulty with a homework assignment that my daughter found ridiculously easy...
...most Web grocers sniff at the Walker model. Their customers are so in love with delivery, they don't even miss manhandling the fruit and vegetables. "I never knew what I was sniffing for in a cantaloupe anyway," says Molloy. Liz Stone concurs. These days, she only sets foot in a regular grocery store about once a month, for the odd item she forgot. "When we do go now, it's like a treat for the kids," she says. Children who actually enjoy supermarket shopping? The wonders of e-commerce will never cease...
...Judeo-Christian West, however, time is a line, marching steadily from the past to the future. As Lippencott puts it, "God never moves backward." Deward Walker, an anthropologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, argues that this way of viewing time is "part of the reason we have such an advanced science, technology and economy, such mastery of nature and dominance of the universe...