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...battle is providing a new sense of purpose. He admits that he is "happier than I have ever been. I hate being sick, but I don't have time to be obsessed about death." It is an attitude that provides a glimmer of hope amid the devastation being wrought by AIDS...
...substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth...
...largest company (1987 revenues: $6 billion). Holmes a Court had patiently stalked BHP, a vast mineral and energy conglomerate, for nearly five years, aiming to use the company as the foundation for a global natural- resources empire. His decision to sell was poignant evidence of the changing fortunes wrought by last October's stock-market crash, in which Holmes a Court's empire was perhaps the world's single largest loser...
Respect that you may hold in your hands the dried-up remains of the sweat of a man 400 years dead. Don't drop them, the librarian said. Respect that you hold wrought leaves of paper that were molded and dried long seasons ago into these pages, and that they have drunk up the learning of generations. Don't pull it from the top or the binding will break, the librarian said. Ultimately, respect that what you hold is a treasure brought out of the fog of time, out of the mind of a master, whose message to the world...
Though the intervening millenia have changed mankind in many ways--through the invention of monotheism, the printing press and the bra, for example--none of these changes can match the revolutions wrought by America on the institutions of sport and democracy, not only as an innovator, but as a disseminator. No country can claim to be the birthplace of so many world-popular sports; football, baseball and basketball are just a few that enjoy popularity in at least one foreign country (if one counts Canada as a foreign country). Nor can any nation country claim to have forcibly installed democracy...