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He was amused by her accent and helped her with her vocabulary.
As the two grew closer over her studies and her child, Raya felt a sweetness that she had not felt since she had been a little girl.
Their parents raise a foreigner; children grow up with parents from whom they feel estranged.
When Raya learned the Russian language, however, the dynamics of their relationship changed.
A parent hurt by the rejection of a child's negative judgment often feels too misunderstood to acknowledge hurtful actions.
But the respect an adult child gives a parent strengthens both of them, as well as the relationship between them.
With encouragement, Barbara started to hold her anger in check.
He would ban the use of dog or cat fur or flesh in any manufactured goods.
He would ban the use of monomeric methyl methacrylate, which is used on fingernails, in beauty salons.
Citrus company blocks canker surveillance officials
He enlisted in the army, and by the time he came home from the war, she had grown into a tall, attractive, almost young woman.
My father first raped me when I was seven.
Inspectors told us that they were not even aware that when they checked the names of incoming passengers against the automated watchlist, they were checking in part for terrorists.
In general, border inspectors also did not have the information they needed to make fact-based determinations of admissibility.
Terrorists, in turn, have benefited from this same rapid development of communication technologies.
The same people can produce articles telling you how great it is in France and how irritating the French are.
You might not want to replace Portland cement entirely for bridge beams, say.
As a result, families were close-knit and close by.
Daylight found himself charmed, and made curious by the little man.
Miller, who is from Cambridge but just graduated from Northwestern, is spending the summer doing costumes for the show.
As a photographer comes in, Clayburgh is ready for her close-up.
Once, after enduring a night of bombing in Algiers, he wired General Douglas Macarthur.
Hope was thirty eight in nineteen forty one when Pearl Harbor was bombed.
He concluded, Thank you Bob, for being such a large part of America, our wonderful way of life.
He would have renewed and strengthened rent regulations that are set to expire next year.
He would have established security standards for power plants and transmission lines.
Permit immigrants who are permanent residents to become certified teachers without becoming citizens.
Alaska Airlines, headquartered in Seattle, provides an example of the dramatic results of stringent bag matching.
Those who endured a weeks-long waiting list line up for an acupuncture session in the Primrose Room.
Need some help with the household chores?
There are hordes of us waiting to hear Dylan on a Sunday night in July.
What Dylan did that night changed music bigtime.
Dylan will play Newport Saturday night for the first time since nineteen sixty five.
We were on the cusp of a lot of things besides music that summer.
There exists no official version of what happened.
Indeed, today's easy mobility has produced geographical separation.
The utility of each object to the consumer is subjected to exponential discounting over time.
A Lego house today is worth more than a Lego house tomorrow and still more than a Lego house two days from now.
And for simplicity's sake, the total utility of a bundle of goods is the sum of their discounted utilities to the consumer.
The task of the social planner is to plan a pattern of production activities over time that optimizes the discounted happiness of the consumer.
A standard approach is to adopt a finite planning horizon.
At present, Garcia said, officials are exploring three possible motives.
Over time, the model economy ticks forward.
Hadayet, he said, nodded to him in greeting but said nothing.
But Harrison reckons magnesium cements could eventually replace eighty percent of cement.
Even when provoked, she behaved respectfully toward her father, and then later sorted through her feelings.
The result is that, no matter how caring or concerned these children may be and usually are, they are too far away to be readily available, except for occasional crisis intervention.
His legacy and his loss are huge.
Go out there and play something.
George Wein was also on stage that night, off to the side, and claims he was the one who told Dylan he had to go out again.
Butterfield and the Chambers Brothers, after all, had both played electric music earlier that weekend.
It was the presentation.
His baby face is long gone, as is his voice.
And from Stephen Wadsworth I have learned a quality of listening, to the music, and to the performers.
I hear a generic countertenor sound starting to happen, and a lot of what I hear sounds blank to me, what about the words?
At each period, in general, only some of the possible goods and services are constructed.
Dad confirmed our identities, which seemed to reassure the detective.
The others do not make the consumer happy enough.
Dad also promised to wire us money and make arrangements for a flight back to the United States in the morning.
From an alley came the sound of children crying in frightened, screeching voices.
I will remember the reunion with our families for the rest of my life.
They met us at the Syracuse airport, and our homecoming was so emotional that even strangers at the gate got choked up.
Being back has been hard for both of us, and I think Jude realized that I needed some kind of release.
A hedgerow that should offer some protection against the winter's north wind.
I've sketched out plans for a barn that will be smaller, but just as serviceable as the one on Kallimos.
This project is going to stretch us to the limit, but I think we can get the house closed in and the barn up before snow flies.
Actually, I think Jude's mom and dad see this as a hopeful sign that we're not totally crazy.
We can boast of a complete set of doors and windows.
The interior is nowhere near finished, but we can do most of the work during the winter.
One useful pattern for detecting call-center rage is repetition, his research group has found.
My older daughters enjoy coaxing smiles and coos from her.
His full name was Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet, and the authorities were confident that Hadayet was his correct surname.
Will we need to restrict our meals to restaurants that provide crayons?
And Danilewicz said that Hadayet often gave his elder son, Omar, as much as five hundred dollars a month for spending money.
His wife, Hala, often wore a scarf on her head when she ventured outside.
People who answered phones at four mosques in the Irvine area said they did not know Hadayet and, to their knowledge, he had never prayed there.
The flags were still there today.
Only serrated strips of the gummed backing remained.
Finally, the life ebbed from Hadayet, who died on the terminal floor.
And after the bath, a shave would not be bad.
What would it be like to have ears again? he asks himself.
He notices the veins painted on the ear in his hand.
Also at regular intervals, he would mutter.
At sea, Monday, March seventeenth, nineteen oh eight.
At sea, Tuesday, March seventeenth, nineteen oh eight.
Books talk about maintaining a good marriage by hiring a baby sitter so parents can have a date night.
Prime sources of magnesium carbonate, such as magnesite and dolomite cost more to mine than calcium carbonate.
Over time, new goods and services come into existence, and old ones go out of existence in small and large avalanches of speciation and extinction events.
But he fears the costs of maintaining his patents could force him out of business before it really gets going.
Engineers are familiar with its mechanical properties.
The logical way out is to accelerate the formation of carbonate with our own man-made rocks.
They are not close enough physically to provide ongoing care.
There is another difference between caretaking then and now.
Right after her eighteenth birthday, they eloped.
Before the days of women's independent work or careers, daughters were usually available as homemakers.
They simply added parental caretaking to their other regular family responsibilities.
Today, families are usually smaller in number than in the past, with two or three children being most typical, so fewer grown children now are available for assistance, and among those adult children, the daughters and the sons are equally employed or preoccupied outside the home.
In contrast, today's older people need both more and less care than in the previous generation.
They need less because medical improvements are keeping them stronger longer; they need more because they live longer with chronic conditions that require care longer.
Still another important reason for the change in caretaking responsibility is that today's older generation has long taught and sought independence, both for themselves and for their children.
So in a sense, they intentionally freed their children from the burden of parental obligation that they themselves had endured.
During their own younger or adult years, this was not difficult and was even satisfying.
Screw and screwdriver are complements; screw and nail are substitutes.
But when they reached their older years and began to feel or expect the need for care, they also began to feel some regrets about the lessons of freedom from responsibility that they had taught and their children had learned so well!
The need to take care, or to be taken care of, in the later years of lasting marriages may be inevitable, but how the need is met is far from the same in all situations.
Craig Pressler of two P H says it was not an easy choice, with both farmers risking their plans to replant orchards next year.
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There was another younger child, a little boy, who died in infancy of meningitis.
They rarely talk about him because, even after all these years, it is still painful for Dora, and Mickey gets upset when he sees her upset.
They simply could buy off the shelf and harvest the products of a three trillion dollars a year telecommunication industry.
They could acquire without great expense communication devices that were varied, global, instantaneous, complex, and encrypted.
In many cases, the surge officers had little familiarity with the new issues.
Inevitably, some parts of the world and some collection targets were not fully covered, or not covered at all.
The concern about security vastly complicated information sharing.
Information was compartmented in order to protect it against exposure to skilled and technologically sophisticated adversaries.
Complements must be used together to create value; substitutes replace one another.
The Department of Defense is the behemoth among federal agencies.
With an annual budget larger than the gross domestic product of Russia, it is an empire.
The Defense Department is part civilian, part military.
The civilian secretary of defense has ultimate control, under the president.
As the national security advisor's function expanded, the procedures and structure of the advisor's staff, conventionally called the National Security Council staff, became more formal.
The advisor developed recommendations for presidential directives, differently labeled by each president.
After they sold the store and retired, they enjoyed their leisure time for only a few years before they both started experiencing health problems.
Shall I carry you?
Dora developed rheumatoid arthritis, which caused swelling and pain in her fingers, hands, and knees.
Rather obviously, the complements and substitutes of any good or service constitute the economic niche in which that good or service lives.
One knee became so painful that it was difficult to walk, and she had to undergo knee replacement surgery.
Death or life, it was for her to choose.
I had no idea whether I was coming back or not.
The adults who were supposed to protect her failed her.
Donna's exuberant, charming directness drew people to her, and her openness allowed others to comfort her.
Through the years, Donna worked with a caring nurse she called Mother Janie.
This golfing buddy of presidents and dinner companion of generals had an undeniable common touch.
It is the strap hangers that will keep us from going under.
The serious side of war, Hope once said, was not his field.
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And now one hip has become affected, and the rheumatologist is recommending hip replacement surgery.
Hancock is far from alone in taking such measures.
Dora ruefully refers to herself as turning into a bionic woman.
She is rarely totally pain free, but she doesn't want to take prescribed pain medication too much or too often because she becomes sleepy or disoriented.
Since then, Mickey has been under regular medical care, takes medication, and always carries nitroglycerine pills for emergencies.
New goods enter the economy, typically, as complements and substitutes for existing goods.
He has continued to experience some minor incidents, and the doctor has cautioned that he must try to learn to take things more easily and calmly if he is to avoid a worse angina attack in the future.
Kiwi apple growers are angry at claims a native New Zealand wheat bug was spread to Europe by apple packaging.
Mickey finds this advice bitterly amusing.
Should I make myself over?
Should I make my life over?
Dora and Mickey are both aware of, and worried about, each other's health problems, and they try to protect one another by being secretive or silent about their own problems.
He was an athlete, and a giant.
Because he doesn't want to upset her, Mickey tries not to complain about any feelings of tiredness or weakness, and often assures her that he is all right even when he really is not.
And because she doesn't want to upset him, Dora tries not to complain about her own pain, and so she too sometimes lies about how she is feeling.
Yet they know each other so well that, deep down, they can usually tell when the other one is suffering, even if there is nothing they can do about it.
Wholesale reviews are taking place out of public sight, said Mcgurn, who declined to identify the companies.
Their daughter is extremely concerned but also exasperated by her parents.
She has urged them to stop playing games with each other and being so protective, to be more honest about their pains and their needs.
Dora and Mickey appreciate her concern but continue to ignore her advice.
There is just no point in inventing the channel changer before the television set is invented and television programming is developed.
Bess is a small woman, neat and graying, earnest and soft-spoken; Mel is also short, but muscular, and gives the impression of being a man of few words, or at least one who prefers to say few words.
Bess describes the two of them without apology or complaint, as ordinary people who had ordinary lives.
She says that they never did anything important or special, they just always tried to be good people.
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One thing they are both proud of is that the two of them, who barely finished high school themselves, were able to ensure that both of their children went to college and had more opportunities than they had.
Before his retirement, Mel worked as a dispatcher for a long-distance trucking company, a position he had moved up to after several years of on-the-road driving.
Matthewson, who is this bookkeeper, Rogers?
He appreciated the better salary and regular hours of the new position, but he actually missed some of the freedom he had enjoyed being on the road on his own.
On the other hand, Bess was greatly relieved by his office job because it meant he was safer and also more available.
Throughout most of her adult years, Bess has had high blood pressure and has taken medication to keep it under control.
Experts are treating more than four hundred Monitor artifacts to try to reverse the corrosive effects of time and seawater.
Her mother also suffered from serious high blood pressure and eventually died of a resulting stroke so Bess has been conscientious about monitoring her diet, salt intake, and medication.
She seems to have recovered completely as far as symptoms indicate; but what she does feel and worry about is the unnerving fear of a recurring stroke.
On the other hand, Mel's health was remarkable because it was so unremarkable.
The more objects an economy has, the more novel objects can be constructed.
When we were working with rough stone in the Lower Paleolithic, we pretty much mastered everything that could be done until pressure flaking came along.
Most forms of simple stone tools that could be made were made.
Today, the adjacent possible of goods and services is so vast that the economy, stumbling and lunging into the future adjacent possible, will only construct an ever smaller subset of the technologically possible.
I now discuss an algorithmic model of the real economic web, the one outside in the bustling world of the shopping mall, of mergers and acquisitions.
Each plane costs more than its weight in pure gold.
While powerful, however, no algorithmic model is complete, for neither the biosphere nor the econosphere is finitely prestatable.
To his surprise, her answer was flat, and uncompromising.
Indeed, the effort to design and construct an algorithmic model of the real economic web will simultaneously help us see the weakness of any finite description.
Among other features, any such graph has graph-typical characteristics.
Some goods are central to the web, the car, computer and so forth.
Other surprises have emerged.
Others are peripheral, such as the hula hoop and pet rock.
Presumably, location of its products in the web structure has a great deal to do with the strategic position of a firm.
Consider the economy as forever becoming, burgeoning with new ways of making a living, new ways of creating value and advantages of trade, while old ways go extinct.
Out of abstractions, Ernest had conjured a vision, and made them see it.
Several points about Congress are worth noting.
After thirty years running the Kettering-Moraine Museum, Melba Hunt is as intimate as anyone can get with the Wright Brothers.
One is but a vague imitation of the other, adequate if there is no alternative but not terribly satisfying.
For most consumers, it has been sheer fantasy.
Moved Monday in, e, entertainment and, f, financial categories.
Lifestyles.
The confrontation nonetheless signaled the end of wooden warships and the start of the age of armored battleships.
Still, Jason sees the double takes and hears the whispers when he walks by.
Philip thrust himself against it, and entered.
He never got sick, never had any complaints, hardly ever went to see doctors, didn't take any regularly prescribed medication, and boasted of his cast iron stomach that digested anything he ate or drank.
The stormy weather across northern Australia is affecting the price of diamonds.
Increased production in Australia and strong global competition will keep grain prices low.
They must mature beyond the stage of complaint, beyond blaming the parents who hurt them.
There are differences in marital relationships, in individual personalities, in the nature of the particular problems, in the resources available, and in which spouse is the primary patient or caretaker.
The caretakers may have health changes or problems of their own, but these are, as yet, less limiting and more manageable than the spouse's.
For instance, when a person calling for flight information repeats a question several times using approximately the same wording, something has gone wrong.
Jude's garden is in full bloom.
Our first goats arrived today.
It is as much the fuel for this human bulldozer as his overwhelming ambition.
Half-inch-thick plates had eroded in some places to wisps.
Its transport from Carolina waters to Newport News will be a race against time.
Once recovered from the sea, salt-encrusted iron can form iron chloride crystals.
If an artifact is exposed to air too long, the crystals can multiply and split the iron.
It can take years for a crusty iron artifact to be restored.
In the case of the engine and turret, the process may take ten years or more, experts said.
No matter what our age, one day too soon death arrives in our lives.
Easiest of all to conserve is glass.
First, Congress always has a strong orientation toward domestic affairs.
It usually takes on foreign policy and national security issues after threats are identified and articulated by the administration.
The Bin Ladin station was already working on plans for offensive operations against Bin Ladin.
These plans were directed at both physical assets and sources of finance.
Our folks may doubt our stories about Kallimos, but they are impressed with Jude's way with a garden.
In the end, plans to identify and attack Bin Ladin's money sources did not go forward.
Mike thought the capture plan was the perfect operation.
It required minimum infrastructure.
So, he has come here to Virginia, looking for the normalcy that others take for granted.
This too is the proper subject for your study, not just allocation of scarce resources and achievement of market-clearing prices.
Jason has lost a lot of tissue and his face is much smaller than it used to be.
Agricultural analyst Neil Clark says average-sized farmers have tough times ahead.
The passage of tropical cyclone Monica in the Northern Territory has resulted in new rainfall levels.
Regional family day care operators fear for future
The threat comes on top of a drop in available childcare places over the past year due to changes to funding.
Investment schemes urged to stop new vineyard developments
The harvest is going to be huge, even though this is the first season the plot has been tilled.
Jude's pregnancy is really showing now.
I feel confused and overwhelmed by this new responsibility, but I know one thing for certain, our little girl is beautiful.
If everyone knows the song, then everyone can comfort the baby.
Jude, Haleigh, and I are spending the evening huddled beside our wood stove.
There is no moon tonight, so I am making my way to and from the barn by the light of my kerosene lantern.
The economy is about persistent creativity in ways of making a living.
I used to think that we switched to English because we were being lazy.
What we do not have, however, is that wonderful sense of belonging, that sense of being embraced, that we had there.
No matter how we fill in the blank, life shatters.
We hope our marriages stay intact to flourish into our seniority.
My heart is faint within.
Individual cultures decide when mourning becomes pathologic.
If mourning were to last a year for each child who died back then, people would have spent their entire lives in mourning.
Each year, on the anniversary week of the death, the Yahrzeit, the time of year, he stands before others and again recites the mourner's prayer.
What should women do about hormone replacement therapy given the current brouhaha?
In the living moment of memory, we resurrect the dead to comfort us.
Andrew Cuomo has served as a senior adviser to a president, Clinton, and to an almost-president, Al Gore.
Barbara refashioned her responses toward him and, in turn, her father softened toward her.
In time, Barbara got to know him better and understand him better even though he rarely talked about his life.
Think then of the role of laws and contracts, whose constraints enable the linked flow of economic activities down particular corridors of activities.
Heads held high, eyes shining, they communicated the richness of a lifetime of love, conflict, and proud reconciliation.
Barbara's father grew up hurt in a hurt family.
If I was out of the game, it would be easily made.
Time was it was nothing more than a few artifacts in the basement of the Deaf Smith County Library in Hereford.
Tenet told us that given the recommendation of his chief operations officers, he alone had decided to turn off the operation.
British Open notebook.
The web of economic activities flows down channels whose constraints are largely legal in nature.
The coming into existence of the enabling constraints of law is as central to economic development and growth as any other aspect of the bubbling activity.
They ooh and ah over the neatly stacked cords of firewood, the well-stocked root cellar, and the pungent goat cheese.
But recall Boeing's question.
They wanted to build a family of related objects.
Hence, let us define still another related sense of robustly constructible.
When we build a house, we all know that boards and nails are primitive objects, and the completed house is the finished object.
So for almost all couples, the differences in health conditions are obvious enough to clearly define which spouse gives the caretaking and which spouse receives it.
He had simply informed Berger, who had not pushed back.
He never paid any attention to his health, and therefore neither did she.
Berger's recollection was similar.
He said the plan was never presented to the White House for a decision.
Everyone involved in the decision had, of course, been aware of President Clinton's problems.
He told them to ignore them.
Berger recalled the President saying to him that they were going to get crap either way, so they should do the right thing.
All his aides testified to us that they based their advice solely on national security considerations.
We have found no reason to question their statements.
The status of the document was and remained uncertain.
It was never formally adopted by the principals, and participants in the Small Group now have little or no recollection of it.
It did, however, guide Clarke's efforts.
The military component of Clarke's plan was its most fully articulated element.
Several intelligence reports, some of dubious sourcing, mentioned Washington as a possible target.
Early drafts of this highly sensitive document emphasized that it authorized only a capture operation.
Two years ago, just about the time of his eightieth birthday, Mel began complaining of fatigue, which was out of character for him.
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He also noticed an unusual swelling of his legs.
Advance or feature on NASCAR race at Loudon.
I opened my eyes, and there was Hannah, by the side of our bed.
She asked me to join her for tea, so I followed her to the kitchen.
I told her about our return to this world, our visit to Montserrat's jail, and our reunion with our families.
I reached out and touched her, and I could feel her warmth.
It's just, it's the way it is.
Medicine that could cure cancer, would you share your knowledge of that remedy with the world?
I shifted uncomfortably in my chair.
The clock ticked behind us as I sat silent, torn between grief at what we had lost and guilt for what I had not done.
Good fortune had blessed the inhabitants of this land with a series of wise and gentle kings.
Will he be wise or foolish?
He showed little interest in the heroic exploits of the mountain traders, and he was slow to learn the songs that were sung of their deeds.
Years passed, and in time, Sarop became king.
From Tiga in the north to Ogewo in the south, all must hear my words.
Curls of shaved wood peaked out from the cuffs of his patched trousers.
He and his guests laughed at the foolish young king until their sides ached.
We'll build one vessel, and then everyone will want one.
The cooper stood nervously in front of his work, a giant barrel that was split lengthwise down the middle and laid on its side.
The crowd of courtiers fell silent as the families were marched at spear point to the waiting vessels.
On the beach, cold and gray as the sea itself, lay the bodies of the patriarch, his wife, and their children.
The king ordered that ropes be thrown to them, and the unfortunate souls were hauled to shore.
As soon as the boat was secured, the king made his way to its side.
Now rise, sir, rise and begin your work.
I told Jude about Hannah's visit in the morning, and we have talked about little else since.
Life in a truly human community revolves around close and continuing contact with children, plants, and animals.
Wise leadership is the lifeblood of any struggle against the three plagues.
Every day, I shudder at the thought that I am guilty by association.
Last Monday, I arrived to find broken beer bottles littering the floor of the elevator.
Yesterday, I went to see a dying patient and found the remains of last night's supper covering his sheets.
For God's sake, this is a human being.
Today, I went on rounds, and we identified three new stage-four pressure ulcers.
The response to my protests?
Walking the halls is like entering one of the inner circles of hell.
Three days ago, federal surveyors arrived for a surprise inspection.
Fortunately, I have tomorrow off.
I grabbed my rain slicker, headed down the driveway, and turned onto my favorite dirt road with the rain falling hard on my back.
I stalked off toward home, but I had gone no more than twenty five yards when the car pulled alongside for the third time.
His face was lined deeply by decades of exposure to the sun and wind, and his jacket could not hide his enormous forearms.
I slouched down into the seat while the old man mashed on the clutch, shoved the car into gear, and jerked the car into motion.
As the sleeves of his too small jacket slid up his arms, I could see muddy blue blotches that must have been ancient tattoos.
Look, son, quit complaining, and remember that this is a broken world.
He smiled slightly as he peered through the rain on the windshield.
I raced inside, but by the time Jude and I made it back to the porch, the car and its mysterious driver were gone.
The way ahead is hard, but the day will come when many will share the work of the Eden Alternative with you.
Our tears splashed on many of its pages.
The difference between the two is unimportant.
Still, there are a few things I think you need to understand.
He is wise, gentle, and full of patient understanding, just like the Virgil in the story.
My heart broke that day, and it has never really been the same since.
I was thinking of that when I wrote the following lines:
We took Haleigh to the best pediatric neurologists in the world.
Thank you, Jude.
You are the sun of my shadows, the light of my darkness.
I will never forget the whiteness of her hair and the blueness of her eyes.
I quickly came to see that the three plagues of loneliness, helplessness, and boredom were tormenting the people I cared for.
Despite this, the organization devoted very few of its resources to alleviating them.
The Eden Alternative has grown in size, scope, and complexity since its inception in nineteen ninety two.
Institutionalized elders everywhere suffer from the three plagues of loneliness, helplessness, and boredom.
The Eden Alternative is the beginning, not the end, of an epic journey.
The Green House is inspired by the richness of close personal relationships and the healing power of community.
Human caring is founded upon a knowing, empathic, resourceful response to the needs of another.
Our experience with institutional long-term care has led us to put great faith in written rules and regulations.
To love and be loved, to cherish and be cherished, to hurt and then be healed, none of these gifts will ever be delivered via e-mail.
That will leave about fifteen thousand nine hundred thirty more nursing homes to go.
What are old people for?
The value of elderhood, its unique capacity to serve the needs of people of all ages, is in danger of being lost.
Our culture declares that adulthood is forever, that old age is decline, that perfection is lodged in youth and youth alone.
While all of these transitions are precious, and potentially beautiful, the last has, more than we know, enriched all the others.
Over time, they lost contact.
Even these limitations might have been overcome if this woman had believed that old age was a time for healing and making peace.
In time, I expect to see fewer anguished deathbed reconciliations.
We are taught not to rely on the pillars of emotion, affection, and love as the basis for understanding self and society.
Her adolescent daughter was struggling with a serious chronic disease.
The girl's illness repeatedly plunged this woman into a whirlpool of grief and anger.
For their part, they could have become wise men, the elders of this community.
The desire to be recognized and respected as adults had closed elderhood to them.
They are also far more durable.
Storytelling is one of the pleasures of life, its sweetness enhanced when the story is used to transmit a bit of wisdom.
They have stored our most cherished beliefs and then transmitted them to the young.
Nowadays the idea of being well known is usually understood as a kind of half-lit celebrity.
I had to lean close to hear, as his voice was barely above a whisper.
The breakfast dishes, still unwashed, sat on the counter above her.
Anyone I could call: a neighbor, a friend, clergy, anyone?
Louise Barton knew my parents well and, when my father was out of work, saved our home by paying the taxes on our property.
Marjorie Lee taught school and made quilts, which she gave away to her neighbors.
A grandfather may wish to gather up his mother's legacy and encourage his grandson to be part of the process.
Aging brings depth, richness, and meaning to our longevity.
Lessac Technologies is located at seventeen forty Massachusetts Avenue in Boxborough, Massachusetts.
The phone number at LTI is nine seven eight, two six three, zero zero three three.
John Reichenbach works for Lessac Technologies as President.
My name is John Reichenbach.
Mister Reichenbach received a B S from Yale University.
Reichenbach holds an M B A from Harvard Business School.
Gary Marple functions as Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Lessac Technologies.
Doctor Marple is a co-founder of Lessac Technologies Inc.
Marple formerly worked at Arthur D Little.
I am Gary Marple.
Arthur Lessac is the pioneer who developed the kinesensic approach to the use and training of the human voice.
Although he is now ninety-nine years old, Arthur Lessac is still actively teaching, and still the only widely acknowledged expert in the kinesensic methods of voice instruction.
Reiner Wilhelms-tricarico is the Chief Architect of Lessac Technologies.
Brian Mottershead is Lessac Technologies Senior Software Engineer.
Rattima Nitisaroj holds a doctorate in linguistics, and functions as Lessac Technologies Chief Computational Linguist.
Nishant Chandra is the initial inventor of much of the Lessac Technologies intellectual property.
Lessac Technologies has developed a new way of synthesizing human speech which enables a computer to automatically produce fully expressive prosodic human speech from plain text input.
David A Evans, born nineteen forty eight in Saint Louis, is the president, CEO and chief scientist of JustSystems Evans Research Inc.
David Evans is a prominent figure in the field of Computational Linguistics.
Doctor Evans attended Stanford University, receiving his Ph D in Computational Linguistics there in nineteen eighty two.
Evans was on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University from nineteen eighty three until nineteen ninety six, and founded their Computational Linguistics Program and Laboratory for Computational Linguistics.
In nineteen ninety three, the research of David Evans was spun-out from Carnegie-mellon, as Claritech.
Claritech became a research and development subsidiary of JustSystems and its name was changed to Clairvoyance Corporation in nineteen ninety six, before becoming JustSystems Evans Research Inc in two thousand and seven.
When Henry Morgenthau became the Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin D Roosevelt, he decided that there should be a written record of every word that was spoken in his office.
This written record was sampled and used at U S C by Armar A Archbold in dialogue modeling studies in the nineteen seventies.
Archbold is on the board of Lessac Technologies.
Edward Chandler is a board observer for Lessac Technologies.
The board at Lessac Technologies consists of: Gary Marple, John Reichenbach, Peter Bransfield, David Evans, Armar Archbold, and Ed Chandler.
Ayse Kalkan-savoy is a software engineer at LTI.
Luke Immes is a software engineer at Lessac.
Doctor Alan Black, an assistant professor at the Language Research Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, is a consultant to LTI.
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Kinesensic Training was created by Arthur Lessac, one of the great teachers of the twentieth century in voice and body training.
Instead of relying upon the ear, or merely imitating sound, the student is encouraged to feel the sound, as it is being produced from within.
Nancy Krebs is a Lessac Master teacher.
The voice model for the LTI synthesizer is Nancy Krebs.
One is smaller than two.
Two is larger than one.
Three is smaller than four.
Four is larger than three.
Five is smaller than six.
Six is larger than five.
Seven is smaller than eight.
Eight is larger than seven.
Nine is smaller than ten.
Ten is larger than nine.
Eleven is smaller than twelve.
Twelve is larger than eleven.
Thirteen is smaller than fourteen.
Vietnam's twenty five thousand dairy farmers have only four cows each on average.
Fourteen is larger than thirteen.
He will also help to establish a dairy training facility at the National Institute of Animal Husbandry in Saigon.
Humans urged to adopt animal eating patterns
Senator Nigel Scullion has intimated that Northern Land Council lands near Tennant Creek are being considered.
They are also calling for a ten per cent cap on individual shareholdings.
The national vintage is expected to reach one point nine million tonnes, just one per cent down on last season.
The booming base metals price has led to the reopening of an old zinc mine in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Fruit and vegetable producers on the Adelaide Plains are worried about the impact of a fruit fly outbreak.
Protesters crying murder also say the Federal Government is sanctioning animal cruelty.
The protest comes as Australia is experiencing unprecedented growth in the cattle and beef industry.
Oil-for-food inquiry adjourned
Former U N customs official, Felicity Johnstone, will fly to Australia in mid-may to give evidence.
The Northern Territory community of Adelaide River is battling flooding in the wake of tropical cyclone Monica.
Previously farmers could only buy water attached to land or from government-run irrigation schemes.
It is about the size of a large washing machine and is designed to generate power in remote areas.
Fifteen is smaller than sixteen.
Would you be satisfied with that one hundredth part of me?
Meanwhile, I'll go out to breathe a spell.
N F L notebook.
N H L notebook.
Managing editor Tom Oder, four zero four, five two six, five eight eight seven.
Assistant news editor Alan Gordon, four zero four, five two six, seven two eight two.
News editor Carl Rauscher, two zero two, eight eight seven, eight three zero seven.
Foreign editor Chuck Holmes, two zero two, eight eight seven, eight three two zero.
Enterprise editor Art Dalglish, two zero two, eight eight seven, eight three three eight.
Sixteen is larger than fifteen.
Seventeen is smaller eighteen.
The tribals were to be paid only if they captured Bin Ladin, not if they killed him.
Officials throughout the government approved this draft.
They were dubious about a quick strike approach to using Special Operations Forces, which they thought complicated and risky.
He dismissed these symptoms and insisted they would go away, but then he experienced some urinary bleeding.
At this point, Bess and their children insisted that he see a doctor.
After a number of examinations and procedures, it was learned that he had a tumor on one of his kidneys, and a biopsy showed it to be malignant.
Mel's general health was otherwise good, so surgery was performed to remove the diseased kidney.
The surgery was successful, but the recuperation was slow, and his previous secure feeling of strength never completely returned.
He now has to maintain a strict diet, monitor fluid intakes carefully, take frequent blood tests, rest more at home, and see his doctor regularly.
Bess has been as conscientious in taking care of Mel's health as she has always been with her own.
She worries about whether he is eating or sleeping enough; she measures and monitors all his liquids; she watches to see that he takes his medications and follows the doctor's instructions.
He complains that she's making too much of a fuss, but nevertheless he has been an accepting, if unhappy, patient.
They are both trying hard but still struggling with these new circumstances while settling into a reciprocal routine.
Bess knows that she is no longer the exclusive or primary patient in the family and can no longer rely unquestioningly on her husband to take care of her.
Eighteen is larger than seventeen.
It is as if they are both trying to figure out how much help they can or should give to each other, and also how much help they can or should expect to receive from each other.
Even their adult children have felt this change because they now worry about both of their parents, not just one of them.
They are both still tall and handsome people, although illness and weight loss have sharpened Bert's features and made Claire look frail.
There is still a kind of affectionate bantering between them, and occasional flashes of humor from Bert who tries to keep their conversations as light as possible.
Both of them agree that those first fifty years of marriage were happy and successful, and any problems they recall now seem trivial, almost amusing.
There were the efforts and exasperations of raising four sons, all of them now tall, strapping men.
There were the vociferous political arguments between a conservative Bert and a liberal Claire at every election their votes canceled each other out.
And there was the nuisance for Claire, as the only female in a household of five men, of never finding the toilet seat down!
They always had a close and easy relationship with their sons and daughters-in-law, and the four brothers also got along well with one another.
In fact, for years, there was a family tradition of once each month celebrating together all the birthdays or anniversaries or other special events that occurred during that month.
But during these past few years, these celebrations have become subdued since both Claire and Bert have been suffering from worsening heart problems.
Bert has had episodes of heart stoppages that had to be treated with timely application of a defibrillator.
He has already undergone angiogram and angioplasty procedures; and, so far, the doctors are trying to treat him with different medications before resorting to bypass surgery.
Claire has had two cardiac surgeries, attempting to replace a leaking heart valve.
Nineteen is smaller than twenty
Revisiting our memories of those we love fills our hearts, and in their memory we preserve ourselves.
Twenty is larger than nineteen.
Forty is ten units smaller than fifty.
As long as grief is unconsoled, the legacy of sorrow passes on through the generations.
The universe becomes darker, colder, and more frightening.
A parent's death redefines a child's life, and changes the definitions of his character.
A grieving parent who is too devastated to care for a child adds yet further injury.
Boys can father imperfectly like their fathers; girls can mother imperfectly like their mothers.
Peer socialization compensated for parental deprivation.
The ideal to emulate is all image: cool, nerveless, cold-blooded.
Like the soldiers who braved No Man's Land in World War one, many gang members die proving themselves men.
Prisons are filled with fatherless men; two-thirds of them have fathered children.
He pointed to each face, named each friend, and told me who he was, what he had been like, and what their relationship had been.
Though he was decades younger, there were only a few leaves left on Jerome's tree.
The child deprived of love after a parent's death may later assume an air of bitterness that protects him from getting hurt again.
The surviving parent defines the emotional world of the child and must sustain him until there are others to love him as well.
His drinking never interfered with his work, but it strained the marriage and was all too apparent to their three sons.
Such efforts would have required bases in the region, but all the options were unappealing.
Because this was not in an urban area, missiles launched against it would have less risk of causing collateral damage.
On February eighth, the military began to ready itself for a possible strike.
The next day, national technical intelligence confirmed the location and description of the larger camp and showed the nearby presence of an official aircraft of the United Arab Emirates.
But the military officer quoted earlier recalled that the Pentagon had been willing to act.
He told us that Clarke informed him and others that Tenet assessed the chance of the intelligence being accurate as fifty fifty.
This officer believed that Tenet's assessment was the key to the decision.
Attorney General Reno again expressed concerns on policy grounds.
She was worried about the danger of retaliation.
The landscape of the valley changed dramatically over the next two hundred centuries.
The glaciers feeding the lake melted away, and the lake evaporated.
These springs fed a network of streams draining through the Las Vegas Wash to the Colorado River.
The areas surrounding the springs were desert oases: sprawling collections of grasses, trees, and wildlife.
Gass took over the abandoned Mormon fort and six hundred and forty acres surrounding it, dubbing it the Las Vegas Ranch.
He expanded the ranch and irrigated the land, so that it would support crops and cattle.
His determination had other results as well: Gass was named a justice of the peace, and a territorial legislator.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City were among the burgeoning metropolises of the new American West.
When it did, the Las Vegas Valley, which at the time had a non-native population of less than thirty, would change as well.
Businesses sprang up overnight, and wooden houses were erected to replace the tent city, in which many of the early settlers had lived.
One year after the auction, the population of Las Vegas had ballooned to one thousand and five hundred residents, a portent of things to come for the next ninety years.
Vices outlawed or heavily controlled elsewhere were legal here, available any hour of any day.
This originated Las Vegas's reputation as an adult theme park.
As corporations moved in, and the mob was slowly pushed out, a new Las Vegas emerged.
The latest approach is perhaps the best of the post-mob era: the comprehensive resort.
Enter the realm of shopping malls, where everything you are looking for is available without moving your car.
Flea markets are where you will find merchants selling antiques, old Levi's, and every kind of junk imaginable.
They are held periodically throughout the city.
If you are a driving fan, the time to be here is April, when the Toyota Grand Prix auto race is held in Long Beach.
Every year, it attracts drivers and spectators from around the world.
For a closer spot to check out nature, visit Griffith Park, which has miles of trails for cycling, jogging and horseback riding.
Do keep in mind, however, that visitors should come during daylight, and stay in areas where there are lots of people; secluded areas in the park are less safe.
You know all that wild nightlife you have seen in movies about Hollywood.
Just take a drive along the Sunset Strip, and you will know what inspired the reputation.
There is virtually every type of entertainment imaginable here.
Some of the best are clustered in Santa Monica, and in West Hollywood.