Some political spouses are much more comfortable on the campaign trail than others, and they take to it a lot more naturally.
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
Women's sprinting is something the sport should appreciate more.
For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get to. Now, in the more than 20 years I've been doing this, the concept of adventure-travel trips or expeditions by groups has sprung up. The places I went 20 years ago now have adventure-travel trips.
I was aware that the things that I did bothered people, but that only spurred me on even more.
Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company - almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.
Managers now don't just use 11 players; they have to care about all the squad of 25 or more players.
I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.
I hope that most of us believe that we actually would all benefit from living in a more equitable society. If that's not happening, we're squandering human potential.
I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.
I'm a bit taller too because I've got Mum's legs and Dad was a bit more squat and well-built than me. My brother Andrew is a bit more like Dad.
Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days.
Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.
During the 1970s, inflation expectations rose markedly because the Federal Reserve allowed actual inflation to ratchet up persistently in response to economic disruptions - a development that made it more difficult to stabilize both inflation and employment.
A more stable, stabilized Mideast, that's a humanitarian victory.
Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.
It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century.
It's not what my job is about. I'm not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example.
