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...wuss: Prof. N. Gregory Mankiw, who has been spotted tooling around in a shiny BMW (presumably bought with profits from outsourcing American jobs overseas). The bad-ass plate on the back? EC 10, of course...
...neck out," he tells Charlotte, "Makes me think I'm tough." (Mike can't have the pretense of toughness; he's got to exude it.) In one scene, Elliot's Mike is knocked out cold when bad-guy Paul Dubov hits him with ... a coat hanger. What a wuss...
...term Marathon originates from the legend of an Athenian messenger named Pheidippides, who ran 25 miles home to deliver news of a great victory in the battle of Marathon, then dropped dead from exhaustion. What a wuss. For today's extreme-endurance athletes, Pheidippides' fatal exertion would be a gentle warm-up. The real challenge is found in ultramarathons?races of up to 100 km (62 miles) or even farther, often over the kind of rough terrain that would make the average jogger hang up his sneakers in horror. Ultrarunners endure cramps, blisters, dehydration and the occasional exhaustion-induced hallucination...
...every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder The term marathon originates from the legend of an Athenian messenger named Pheidippides, who ran 25 miles home to deliver news of a great victory in the battle of Marathon, then dropped dead from exhaustion. What a wuss. For today's extreme-endurance athletes, Pheidippides' fatal exertion would be a gentle warm-up. The real challenge is found in ultramarathons - races of up to 100 km (62 miles) or even farther, often over the kind of rough terrain that would make the average jogger hang up his sneakers...
...this made a lot of sense. I searched for words both comforting and true. Then my brother added: “And I’d be such a bad soldier.” Not only was this last admission dead-on—my brother is a wuss on an epic scale—but it also revealed an unusual level of self-awareness. It pained...