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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...bite his shirt to stop himself from crying out when Kazem's riveting night sports were too painful and another one was of attempting to remember the f... ... father, he had existed as a verbal punching bag to relieve stress. "Night sports" was the term that Kazem called his form of brotherly love. "No... ...ng no responsibilities for the first time in his life apart from the night sports that usually happened in the mornings, his life was becoming a purpo... ...apart from that time or two of being irritated by their noise when the two families came together. That was over a decade ago. Isn't that right? --Yes... ...want his whole life obsessed by the inconsequential pleasures of his night sports. Kazem disheveled Jatupon's hair with his fingers and slapped... ...s of matter that they were). Inside the stadium-shaped park were homeless families lying on their thin sheets of rectangular bamboo mats and towels. ... ...em were silent, digging deep into their brains for memories of what normal families and normal couples did. They couldn't find what they were seeking... ... blinded by pain and too much exposure to darkness. What did they know of families, couples, and what normal people did? "We have a relationship ... ...o be cloistered in the political issues that mired the day but yearned for sports columns in their newspapers and genuflected to the action effusing f...

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Curly Line with Flowers

By: Ronit Baras

... he was asheimed of me. Mom was the only person that kept me going. She (and sports, and woodwork lesens) helped me get up in the morning and feis... ...otional experiences in the lives of a range of young adults, their friends and families. Ronit has managed to convey deep wisdom and sage advice ab...

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Class Heroes: A Class Apart

By: Stephen Henning

...ealised. The anger, bitterness and grief at the senseless loss of loved ones by families, friends, classmates and a community would last a lifetime... ...any details to the media as they say that the safety of these victims and their families remains the number-one priority.” Through her earpiece, Ja... ...the Metropolitan Police. 31 “No, Rebecca. So far, not one of the parents or families of those involved has spoken to the media directly. All st... ...room. He wished he could be in one now, no one else to hassle him, watching Sky Sports News while tucking into an enormous plate of steak, chips an... ...n its end in the earth below. She’d been here several times before with 46 sports-related injuries and if she ever stood at the base of the ho... ...ad done some very thorough research on each of the known bomb victims and their families. Jasmin and Tommy watched the Randersons in silence as th... ...ut her up. “... and the men tasked with looking after all the victims and their families, and in doing what is best for all, are standing right wit... ... being talked about. She had made James switch the TV off when 24/7 moved on to sports news. “Something weird happened in the lift,” said James, t... ... moving. There was a tightening in his stomach as though he was lifting a heavy sports bag. One second later and the locker slid quickly along the ...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

... of stale sweat and keeps pondering the clouded surface of his crumbling watch. His pinkie sports a rectangular, engraved ring of golden imitation. ... ...unloved, rejected by both progenitors and progeny, clinging together, having survived their families. With eyes downcast, hands sculpting breadcrumb... ...too experienced to be optimistic. I visited the friary next morning. A young monk, clad in sportswear eyed me with surprise. I mentioned my referrer... ...attered. I didn't visit, not even on vacations. I found father-substitutes, adopted other families as home. At times, I would remember him, a tiny... ...uch times, Maurice is no longer in jail but in the hereafter, in a world of warm and loving families. "I spent fourteen years inside" – he confides ... ...ed digital square rangefinder on my field of vision). I couldn't see her. Couples and whole families took over the entire space, tables possessed by...

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From Chaos to Harmony

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...The growing ego makes it difficult for us to belong to one another and to our families. 46 FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY Previously, the family institution ... ...of institution in the past, is yet another testimony to the disintegration of families. The intensification of the ego has global effects, too. Thes... ...dream of a hundred years ago: infinite options for recre- ation, travel, rest, sports—the list is endless, yet we no lon- ger believe in a better futu...

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The Kabbalah Experience

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ainst your new desires; you must keep working, be with your family, and enjoy sports. All the secondary interests and hobbies are redundant. But you... ...t there are people who think only of them- selves, or the well- being of their families, or even that of their city or town. Others think of the well... ... Some of them were used by Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai, such as collective meals, sports activities, trips, weddings, and so on. Q: When the rav attains ... ...N D T H O U G H T S 411 Once, there were towns and villages populated by large families. In the generations that followed, the basic family unit was ... ...e are alone with ourselves; nothing ties people together anymore. That is why families disintegrate. There is an ongoing process called “the recogni... ... six years, the concept of the family will cease to exist. Even today in many families in Europe, husbands and wives work in different cities and mee...

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7 Scorpions : Rebellion

By: Mike Saxton

...cause I do,” Vincent calmly stated. He slammed on the brakes and spun the sports car around. Quickly pushing a 11 7 Scorpions: Rebellion buton whil... ...d saw someone dressed in tight fting, black motorcycle leath- ers riding a sports bike. “Damn rice burners,” Vincent commented. Everyone then turned ... ...people I didn’t know, but that were needlessly taken from their homes and families to be lab rats in a sick experiment to create the very process th...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...fathers; and now unto this day ceaseth not his enduring warfare upon the flowers of all families and the hopes of all hearts. Oh, and will ye serve ... ... to Aristotle and Pliny, the leopard attracts towards itself the harmless beasts by its sports, diversions, and pretended fawnings; so the Greeks by ... ...hall return and resume their sees, accompanied by their clergy and some other Christian families, who had followed them in their voluntary exile. At ... ...bandoned of all, cast out of their houses, spoiled of their goods, separated from their families, deprived of society and human converse, without fin... ...ch merited the appellation of the true people of God, “You only have I known of all the families of the earth;” saith God himself to them by the pro... ...ir whole heart,” Jei xxiv 6,7. “In that day, saith the Lord, I will be a God to all the families of Israel, and they shall be to me a people,” Jer. x...

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Wommack’s The Art of Parenting : Lessons from Parents & Mentors of Extraordinary Americans

By: David Wommack

........................................................... 25 9—The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success. ............. 26 10—Families, teams, and companies win with teamwork. .............................. 26 11—Persistence wins. ...................................................................................... 27 12—Get your priorities in or...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

................................................ 51 AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL SPORTS ....................................................................... ...ld, the state would not lend them money for a home. These rules kept most families to two or fewer heirs. Singapore, Singaling’s country co... ... takes 2.2 children per family to keep the population stable. By limiting families to only two children a society might insure itself of a declining... ...ption, moving traffic violations, even sport participation. Of course some sports carry much higher dangers than others. On the plus side, we have po... ...85. He is an outstanding teacher and is still coaching an intercollegiate sports team. I met a world class medical professor in his 80s at Tromso Uni... ...ded. “Guest workers are not allowed to have children or have their families with them. They are not allowed citizenship. On the other hand we... ... children. There were no longer preferences for public housing for larger families. “On the incentive side, smaller families got pre... ...ly values. We allow no other activities between 6 and 7 PM—no youth league sports, no TV, no concerts. “We have some other requirements for ... ... they have special talents, particularly in mathematics, music, the arts, sports, language facility. This helps the parents to help and encourage th...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

... cash sidetracks the food train. Only with adequate rainfall and smaller families can the small farmers feed themselves and maybe have something le... ...as there helping to train the strength training coaches for their Olympic sports. With a 50 meter pool, an eighteen hole golf course and outstanding... ...ports. With a 50 meter pool, an eighteen hole golf course and outstanding sports facilities, I didn‘t want to leave.‖ —―Commander, it sounds li... ...hat happened to Indira Gandhi in 1977 after she advocated limiting Indian families to two children, then she started voluntary, then forced steriliz... ...eople the idea that girls are just as valuable as boys. But just as large families are traditional, so are male progeny prized. Not long ago I talke... ...elves in the foot with every baby-bullet that enlarged their impoverished families. ―Armament spending dwarfed both education and health-care... ... the people to reduce their family size. So we have no licenses but small families are encouraged. —―What do the Upanishads and the Gita have... ...volunteers from other countries have helped us in so many ways—education, sports, developing better housing, helping us to build low cost water cons...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...r death, villagers wanted to remain in the locality of their forebears and families. In the 1980s, the villagers' environment began to delocalize, and... ...t they will, as so many are slaughtered and you hardly ever see them kept. Families that get water for their fields from the irrigation network move o... ...tilizer, particularly in infertile areas. Only a little, as there are many families living here together, and there isn't enough left over to sell. I ... ... Electricity came about three years ago. The population today is about 200 families. About ten cars, two or three policemen, two teachers. Many men ar... ...schools, vocational schools, a commercial college, police training school, sports college, a construction sector vocational high school and a teacher ... ... pupil must have three complete outfits: school uniform, Scout uniform and sports kit, and in addition, school classes procure uniform costumes for fe... ...y the villages at least have football teams. The education system supports sports, even village schools have sport teachers, and in the cool season, i... ...rive for careers as sporting professionals, and internationally successful sportsmen become national heroes. Table 10 Perspectives of village communit... ...ero. Villagers take no part in them. In December, village schools organize sports events, and in 1984, a sport tournament between schools of all North...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...ING .............................................................................................................................. 45 POWER IN SPORTS... ...e all wrestled with the questions relating to ‗why we are who we are.‘ Do our genes predispose us to a certain type of personality? Is it our famili... ...e birthday parties, weddings, bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs, and sweet 16 parties. Wealth is so often thought of as power, We see it in politics, sports... ... 32 —―Right. So because of an early lack of power in our infancy and childhood we spend our lives seeking it--in success in sports... ...people tend to rouse up civil discord or war on minor neighboring populations—sometimes killing more people than the major warlords. POWER IN SPORTS... ...illing more people than the major warlords. POWER IN SPORTS ―Athletes may begin by wanting to play, but as they rise to the top of their sports... ... and affirmations. But loving takes different tacks as the child grows. When teenagers stretch their psychological umbilicals away from their famili... ...t of Loving‘ just after I left college. He said that what modern society needed, more than anything else, was loving people. As our fragmented famili... ...need in modern society is to overcome our aloneness. Modern economic necessities and the pursuit of wealth have separated us from the extended famili...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... Pg 364 One Basic Effect of Accumulation: Antagonism and Competition Pg 366 Sports Pg 401 Happiness Pg 402 Law Pg 413 Logic and Legality Pg ... ...40 The Vicious Cycles of Civilized Ease and Hardship Pg 747 Play and Sports Pg 757 Toys Pg 757 Humor Pg 771 Failure and Success Pg 771... ...nd the undead Pg 1864 Leaves and Decomposition and the undead Pg 1865 Sports and Hitting Pg 1867 Possession by the undead and the Origin of... ...ow the Universe actually works. What is the most highly balanced dynamic in sports? Two equal, opposing teams with an object in-between, which th... ...ow the Universe actually works. What is the most highly balanced dynamic in sports? Two equal, opposing teams with an object in-between, which th... ... wallowing in ease, neglecting their own children, being absent from their own families. Where do you think the custom of All Empires neglecting the... ...ct to band together in larger numbers. Pride destroys marriage. So do large families who hate each other because they are killers. 1. Lions: ma... ... or personal loving attention is more acceptable since 40-50% of all American families put their children into such inhuman living conditions in ord... ...untry. It has a population of 7,000,000. Its wealth is concentrated into 150 families. Everyone else is poor and starving. While the wealth of th...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

...isease and chromosomal problems. Our more recent advances have allowed the families to determine, through DNA analysis, the potential intelligence of... ... revere their link to our ancestors. We find that this continuity with the families of our past give us roots. But cultural and scientific change gi... ...oday it is $207 billion, ad in twenty years it will be 34 $346 billion. Families often cannot take care of their elderly parents, and some elderly... ...than those faced in the West and in Japan. As China‘s population ages, more families must support elderly members. In 1990 less than 4% of the popula... ... 46 rearing and reduces the need for governmental involvement in defective families. It increases the general level of competent parenting and posit... ...ial interest groups for children and youth, such as free classes in dance, sports, music appreciation, playing musical instruments and so forth. ... ...uildings housed innumerable activities that the child could pursue: ballet, sports, astronomy, physics or chemistry, music composition and performanc... ...phical insights, mastering and instrument or one‘s 62 voice, or playing sports is a far more enjoyable activity than shooting a monster who is eat...

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Children of Tomorrow: Guidelines for Raising Happy Children in the 21st Century

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ssed on to their children’s lives with their partners, and will exist in the families that they have. We learn from examples and become educated by ... ...h subject from within the overall reality. While engaged in music, theatre, or sports, we should give children the sensation that these subjects were... ...ildren’s engagements throughout the day. this way, a child may play games, do sports, sing, dance, or eat, but still listen to discussions about the...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

...bizarre behaviors, it's no wonder that there's a lack of affection in Asian families. Most people don't know this, but it's very uncommon for Asian ... .... In fact, I think it would actually help make things better. I think Asian families would be a lot more caring and nurturing and not so uncommunica... ...wer. Now I know that it's not just with my family. It's pervasive with Asian families all over the world. So there's really no difference between an ... ...ing, I just say a simple Goodbye to my parents, because “ ” — remember Asian families don't hug or kiss. Mommy and Daddy hand me some things to give —... ... a run-down, — derelict gas station would offer such an esoteric flavor a — Sports Illustrated, and a Maxim for our sexual I mean literary perusal. ... ...crash and die. I would love to make a bet with any thrill seeker or extreme sports fanatic that they would not be able last for more than a minute in... ...with China's one-child policy, but what many people don't know is that many families will throw a baby off a cliff if it's a girl, only stopping unti... ...ans are too timid and feeble, thus, lacking backbone. And it's not just with sports; it's with everything. Asians lack backbone because of the extrem...

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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...e ever stroked are the ones you take off as a precursor to your copulatory sports." The gecko stuck out its tongue. "Brackish succulent skin of an edi... ... from now, Noppawan would no doubt tell her son a story in which, for some families, there were no daddies. She might say that in such lucky families ... ...irement he would stare up into empty space from the bleachers near the lit sports stadium in that area where they both lived (an area convenient to As... ...te against these impermanent but nonetheless hard and obdurate clusters of families. As gregarious as he was, he was often driven at such times by an ... ...ed his steps like seaweed washed on crowded shores. On holidays like this, families were everywhere except in fetid trains, like the one he was curren... ...e or faith, that adult fairy tale. He saw a family of mourners grieving as families were meant to grieve and meant to care, but all he knew of them mo... ...in appreciate simple pleasures. A journey there once or twice a week, like sports and art, helped him to find peace of mind by focusing an aspect of h... ...trian purchasers; an occasional bloody limb dangled from one of the ragged sports shoes, and a gecko hung on one of the shoes' tongues. The gecko was ... ... squished shammy that he used to burnish the shine of his Mercedes Benz GL sports utility vehicle, that same vehicle which he had abandoned in the dri...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...re is 10% in the UK). These statistics show that minimum wages hurt poor families with teenagers (by making teenage employment prohibitive) while b... ... those Americans who earn less than two-thirds of the median wage live in families whose income is less than half the national median. (In the UK th... ... some point; in Britain 10% are." Thus, minimum wages seem to hurt poor families with teenagers (by making teenage employment unattractive) while ... ...ked 5 weekly hours more than the French, according to a 1998 study by the Families and Work Institute. Americans also out-worked the industrious Ger... ... plutocracy superimposed on a post-industrial proletariat . Dysfunctional families and disintegrating communities will prove inadequate in the face ... ...illa Brown, Alan Deardorif, and Robert Stern observe wryly: “While Baden Sports can quite credibly claim that their soccer balls are not sewn by ch...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... could continue its high level of existence. They even traded children among families so that a better balance could be achieved for their race and t... ...he violent fanaticism of religious zealots endangered many countries. Crime families disrupted the 14 cities and youth gangs terrorized neighborh... ... These expenses hit hard at the poor, but they also impact the middle class families who are aspiring to be upwardly mobile—keeping up with the Jones... ...re like peas in a pod. We thought alike. We acted alike. We played the same sports and were in the same club at LA High, the Saints. The name wasn’t... ...ed the efficiency of every worker. Children became economic drains on their families. While in earlier days children produced more than they consume... ...at in the non-agricultural and developed economies children cost money. Some families are 66 happier with children, most are not. Children are no ...

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