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...ng technique. Certainly there are things that need to be learned by rote—spelling, writing, the multiplication tables, and so forth. But video games ... ...tion tables, and so forth. But video games can teach history, geography, economics, psychology and many other areas. Naturally we use computer games ... ...ere in the casino‘s favor. When you win your power drive is titillated. And everyone wins sometimes. While there is some skill in playing some games,... ... motivated by the drive for sexual pleasure, but no longer. Make sure the woman is weaker than you. Rape the 60 year old, not the 21 year old Olympi... ...rican sprinter whose lower legs are metal and Pete Strudley who ran the marathon without feet. Or there is Cato Zahl Pederson who won 13 gold medals... ...metal and Pete Strudley who ran the marathon without feet. Or there is Cato Zahl Pederson who won 13 gold medals in the summer and winter Para-Olympi... ...ir own children die. POWER, SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ABUSE IN SPORT ―We even find this prejudice reflected in sport. The International Olympi... ...k out people from the non-Western countries to get their slant on this issue. A couple of women from Japan related how their 1964 Olympic Gold Medal ... ...ich makes it socially desirable or undesirable. A man who picks a fight in a pub is socially disapproved. But the man who wins an Olympic gold medal ...

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...e had to ban it if self-centered people didn‟t leave their used gum under tables and chairs in public places or spit it out on public sidewalks and s... ....” —“I hear that in Iran women aren‟t even able to watch football games. I guess that‟s a way of keeping them superior to men.” —“I... ...logy. Much of their education is delivered over the internet. Educational games teach them our English language along with Chinese, math and science,... ...eaters as well as more violent street criminals. “Just as watching games and films is most often merely killing time. It is not just killing t... ...elligence, creativity and so forth. Reading a good book, watching the Para-Olympics, seeing programs of history or discovery, or meaningful debate pr... ...tern countries grant citizenship to African runners just because they win medals. We don‟t rank running fast nearly as high as research abilities, bu... ...Soviet Union and the East Block countries took it several steps farther in Olympic competition with their doping. While they also led the world in ma... ...uld be the beacon for our societies. With this in mind, the International Olympic Committee takes the lead in many sports related issues, like dopi...

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...disconnection from reality has spread like wildfire. The flight into abstract games is the latest mass craze of a mass consumer culture which has be... ...ped than any form of cooperation. Until you get pyramidal events such as the Olympics: which is mostly about humans competing mechanically physical... ...mans competing mechanically physically between each other. Originally, the Olympic games were an international-political-cultural-religious-sporti... ...peting mechanically physically between each other. Originally, the Olympic games were an international-political-cultural-religious-sporting event... ... only mechanically: worshipping it above other human abilities. What are The Olympics: but a Worship of Physical measurement. Someone being .0014 s... ... runners will be forgotten, but she will be remembered as a world-famous Gold Medal Winner… because her nipples stuck out more than the other women.... ...e to do with human life? What does that have to do with living? Have a Gold Medal for the best nipples in the World. Go around measuring how much ... ...und measuring how much faster, or higher or farther humans live. Have a Gold medal for the fastest lover. Physical measurement is meaningless. I... ...bility to have fun. Instead of giving children the freedom to play their own games as they like; adults interfere and take over their child’s play: ...

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...clopaedia. Only in 1998, did the Britannica switch to multimedia and added tables and graphs to the CD. Video and sound were to make their appearance... ...with cascading menus or links. Admittedly, in this option, the resolution tables (what DOI links to what URL's and to what content) is not really dy... ...ith a dictionary, thesaurus, chart maker, searchable index of quotations, games, and an Encarta Kids interface. Installation is easy. The Encarta is ... ...des a dictionary, thesaurus, chart maker, searchable index of quotations, games, 32 Discovery Channel videos, 25,000 photos and illustrations, 2800 ... ...bed Encarta Kids with age- appropriate, appetizingly presented content and games to boot! The 2007 Encarta's User Interface is far less cluttered th... ... today, at any rate. On the other hand, some people, such as National Medal of Technology recipient Ray Kurzweil, believe that the exponential i... ...professionals. For decades these people have been conditioned to think in Olympic terms: more, stronger, higher. Not: new, unprecedented, non-existe... ...azi regime seemed to have fully grasped its potential (in the Berlin 1936 Olympics). And Bill Gates thought that the internet has a very limited fut... ...professionals. For decades these people have been conditioned to think in Olympic terms: faster, stronger, higher - not in terms of the new, the unp...

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...eir four-pronged flowers, remembering—remembering Alcaeus after his field games, his javelin and discus throwing, his flushed face, his eyes lit, hi... ...poetry, dreamer, lovely singer. Plays lyre and flute equally well. Adores games, trees, flowers, swimming, archery. Wants to travel, be a priestess.... ...out Charaxos, his heavy drinking, then the darkness and torches, the wild games and dances higher up the mountain... “I shouldn’t have gone with hi... ...ithout wine!” she exclaimed, gesturing toward the guests at their outdoor tables. Certainly it was Miriam’s day. I thought of our friendship through... ...ple—was it for dust and smoke? At the temple I stood among money exchange tables and listened to men haggle. A strange, dark, bestial man lorded ove... ...ere storerooms. Animals bellowed. I struck again at the vendors, toppling tables, hurling money trays. The crowd screamed, cheered. In the midst of ... ...s, frescos! Survival jobs. “This door needs immediate repair...place that medallion lower...no red marble here...” I could not equal Donato Bramante’... ...some room or corridor, that tumbled mass of arms and legs and heads is my medal for the day. As we tumble, Jip growls and barks and joins in. Their ... ...ing literary quarterlies and anthologies, and, as the founder of Literary Olympics, Inc., is the editor of a series of multi-language volumes of int...

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... can direct your intellectual efforts in other directions—like into video games, television, or murder mystery books. Why learn the multiplication t... ...ings, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teach violence. Drug sellers vend a release from psychic pa... ...ings, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teach violence. Drug sellers vend a release from psychic pa... ...an rights at home and in Tibet were violently denying the human rights of Olympic torch bearers running the Olympic flame from Greece to China. The ... ...es. They were not supporting China‘s positions, but rather supporting the Olympic ideals. I guess we see the same question of conflicting assumption... ...e French government has awarded the Medaille de la Famille Francaise, the medal of the French Family. Four children gets you the bronze medal, six t... ...he French Family. Four children gets you the bronze medal, six the silver medal and eight the coveted gold medal. It‘s a nice nationalistic notion, ... ... medal. It‘s a nice nationalistic notion, but I would prefer to title the medal ‗Le sexe avant la civilitée’ or ‗Sex over Civility‘ or maybe ‗la cro... ....C. madam‘s phone book. Or look at the bad publicity for Edwin Moses, the Olympic champion hurdler, when he was picked up hustling Hollywood whores. ...

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...ell upon my face. I used to pretend to roll on the grass before her in our games, only to try to reach her little feet, and admire them on a closer vi... ...hateaux between 1793 and 1795; so that there were Louis Quatorze consoles, tables, clock-cases, andirons, candle-sconces and tapestry-covered chairs, ... ...xtraordinary than their sepulchral immo- bility as they sat round the card-tables. “The men looked gray and faded like the ancient tapestries on the w... ...tume. “The very certainty of finding all these folk seated at or among the tables every day at the same hours invested them at length in my eyes with ... ...convict who spent the night in robbing the Bibliotheque Royale of its gold medals, and re- paired to his honest brother in the morning with a request ... ...orgery was a trap of du Croisier’s own setting.” Old Blondet went into the Olympic circus where his six thou- sand pelargoniums stood, and made his bo...

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...creation of a public promenade along the sea, with arbors and little green tables for the consumption of beer, and a platform, sur- rounded by Chinese... ...r was a heap of clay, and on the floor, against the wall, stood some dozen medallions, busts, and figures, in various stages of completion. To exhibit... ...ng for- ward to let fly his stone, he looks like a beautiful runner at the Olympic games. After that I shall skip to the New Testament. I mean to make... ...ward to let fly his stone, he looks like a beautiful runner at the Olympic games. After that I shall skip to the New Testament. I mean to make a Chris... ...o the New Testament. I mean to make a Christ.” “You ‘ll put nothing of the Olympic games into him, I hope,” said Gloriani. “Oh, I shall make him very ... ...w Testament. I mean to make a Christ.” “You ‘ll put nothing of the Olympic games into him, I hope,” said Gloriani. “Oh, I shall make him very differen... ... Rowland frowned. “For heaven’s sake,” he said, “don’t play such dangerous games with your facility. If you have got facility, revere it, respect it, ... ...not been cultivated. When I was a young lady at school, I remember I had a medal, with a pink ribbon, for ‘profi- ciency in Ancient History’—the seven... ...tius and Julius Caesar and— and that period, you know. I believe I have my medal somewhere in a drawer, now, but I have forgotten all about the kings....

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...he air, and its hotel windows (it is full of hotels) give glimpses of long tables set out for dinner, and made to look sumptuous by the aid of napkins... ...and his respect for the memory of the illustrious general is enthusiastic. Medal lions of him, portraits of him, busts of him, pictures of him, are t... ...es, and nervous indiges tion. Besides which, I learn from the statistical tables that one child in five dies within the first year of its life; and o... ... in vans, bowl it away in trucks, and enjoy themselves in playing athletic games with it. If you are for public life at our great Pavilionstone Hotel,... ...e Hotel Porters come rattling down with van and truck, eager to begin more Olympic games with more luggage. And this is the way in which we go on, dow... ...Porters come rattling down with van and truck, eager to begin more Olympic games with more luggage. And this is the way in which we go on, down at Pav... ...onied Interest considers it a band box, and not made to last. Little round tables in it, at one of which the Sister Art ists and attendant Mysteries ... ... did it; and, according to the custom in these cases, I say no more. These games of chess, played with live pieces, are played before small audiences,...

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...ive; a butcher boy, driving with the noble recklessness of a charioteer at Olympic Games, dashed round the corner sitting high above a pair of red whe... ...utcher boy, driving with the noble recklessness of a charioteer at Olympic Games, dashed round the corner sitting high above a pair of red wheels. A g... ...hollow tone. 45 Joseph Conrad CHAPTER IV M ost of the thirty or so little tables covered by red cloths with a white design stood ranged at right angl... ...m is all very well, but there are circumstances when the disposal of a few tables and chairs, brass bedsteads, and so on, may be big with remote and d... ... indissolubly joined and connected as the reverse and ob- verse sides of a medal. The anguish of immoderate compas- sion was succeeded by the pain of ... ...r directions. Women’s words fell into water, but the shortcomings of time- tables remained. The insular nature of Great Britain obtruded itself upon h...

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...medy for grief?”—[Cicero, Tusc. Quest., iii. 26.]—Who has not seen peevish gamesters chew and swallow the cards, and swallow the dice, in revenge for ... ...mpest at sea, fell to defy- ing Neptune, and in the pomp of the Circensian games, to be revenged, deposed his statue from the place it had amongst the... ...d in pleasant spring.”—Catullus, lxviii.] In the company of ladies, and at games, some have per- haps thought me possessed with some jealousy, or the ... ...the sword, the dying in many cases falling upon the cups, and covering the tables with blood.”—Silius Italicus, xi. 51.] And as the Egyptians after th... ... the ribbon I put into his hand about his middle, and be sure to place the medal that was fastened to it, the figures in such a posture, exactly upon ... ... who were of the same diet, made provision of them, and fed them for their tables; as also, they did grasshoppers, mice, lizards, and bats; and in a t... ... in such an old ruin, is longer and broader than that made for him on some medal; but to be able chiefly to give an account of the humours, manners, c... ...s., v. 3.]— that our life resembles the great and populous assembly of the Olympic games, wherein some exercise the body, that they may carry away the... ...declensions to and fro, after the manner of those who, by certain games of tables, learn geometry and arithmetic. For he, amongst other rules, had bee...

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...with care, and taken from the most authentic sources; from statues, busts, medals, even stained glass, for the per- sons of most distinction, from ear... ...oes of him that drinketh swelleth up half a foot high. Chapter 1.XXII. The games of Gargantua. Then blockishly mumbling with a set on countenance a pi... ...niest bleaks. At the unfortunate woman. At the tables. At the fib. At ni... ... fashion of the scholars of the said university is to bestir themselves in games whereof they may have their hands full; but he stayed not long there ... ...levate and absterge my anime from its nocturnal inquinations. I revere the Olympicols. I latrially venere the supernal Astripotent. I dilige and redam... ...ll not this be the golden age in the reign of Saturn? the true idea of the Olympic regions, wherein all (other) virtues cease, charity alone ruleth, g... ...of Ajax Oileus, nor doth this fulminating power belong to any other of the Olympic gods. Men, therefore, stand not in such fear of them. Moreover, I w... ...rest, I will be no less joyful, frolic, glad, cheerful, merry , jolly, and gamesome, than a well-bended tabor in the hands of a good drummer at a nupt... ...o his cap, said to one of his comrades, Prithee, look, is there not a fine medal of a cuck- old? Panurge, by reason of his spectacles, as you may well...

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...t commonly, we find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterwards, wi... ...styllus, Diopompos, and others, that to keep their bodies in order for the Olympic games and such like exercises, they denied themselves dur- ing that... ... Diopompos, and others, that to keep their bodies in order for the Olympic games and such like exercises, they denied themselves dur- ing that prepara... ...he rest, Cestius seated at the lower end, as men often intrude to the open tables of the great. Cicero asked one of his people who that man was, who p... ... mares with which he had three times gained the prize of the course at the Olympic Games. The ancient Xantippus caused his dog to be interred on an em... ...ith which he had three times gained the prize of the course at the Olympic Games. The ancient Xantippus caused his dog to be interred on an eminence n... ...told Marcellinus that it would not be unbecom- ing, as what is left on the tables when we have eaten is given to the attendants, so, life being ended,... ...ysius the father valued himself upon nothing so much as his poetry; at the Olympic games, with chariots surpassing all the others in magnificence, he ... ...nvy, and that long after his death it was a religious belief that his very medals brought good fortune to all who carried them about them; and that mo...