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xEE1.4.4 Hitch 3Did I call it or did I call it? I mean, what did I say, six months? And when was her first date?
So five-and-a-half?
God, I hate it when I'm right. What is it about guys that makes them want to screw anything that walks... even when they're going out with someone as awesome as Allegra Cole?
She's only the most fabulous thing walking around New York.
Thanks, Young
Are you kidding? Of course I'm gonna run it. Why should she waste her heart on some Swedish aristo-brat...
2020-12-0552 minxEE1.4.3 Hitch 2You cannot use what you do not have. So if you're shy, be shy. If you're outgoing, be outgoing.
- I'm not outgoing.
- That's okay
She may not want the whole truth, but she does want the real you. She may not want to see it all at once, but she does want to see it.
So tonight, when you're wondering what to say, how you look, or if she likes you... just remember, she is already out with you. That means she said yes when she could have said...
2020-12-0556 minxEE1.4.2 Hitch 1Basic principles:
No woman wakes up saying: "God, I hope I don't get swept off my feet today."
Now, she might say, "This is a really bad time for me." Or something like, "I just need some space." Or my personal favorite: "I'm really into my career right now."
You believe that? Neither does she. You know why? Because she's lying to you, that's why. You understand me? Lying. It's not a bad time for her. She doesn't need any space. She may be into her career... but what she's really saying is, "...
2020-12-0549 minxEE1.3.20 Worthy GoalsThere I was, trapped in a tiny office, staring at the clock. Time seemed to go at a glacial pace. I turned back to the computer, put my hands on the keyboard, and stared at the screen. I sat like that for hours- doing no work. But if someone walked by my office, it looked like I was working on the computer.
Day after day, I did the same mind numbing routine. It was the most miserable job I ever had-- working for IBM.
Is it possible to make a living in an honest, inspiring...
2020-12-0523 minxEE1.3.19 VipassanaIt felt like two hot knives were stabbing me in the back-- right into my kidneys. It was a burning pain-- unavoidable.
As my mind scanned this area of my back, it imagined two white-hot spots searing through my flesh. My knees also burned. My ankles burned. My feet were numb with a dull ache. But my back was the worst.
I felt a wave of panic-- butterflies in my stomach and a tremendous urge to get up and run away. I gulped, refocused my mind on the sensations in my body, and remained still...
2020-12-0538 minxEE1.3.18 ValidationI'm sitting at the table in my apartment, looking out the window. I turn back to the papers stacked in front of me. "Interesting", I say, "very interesting".
I glance over the test scores again-- the pre-test numbers, the post-test numbers, and the amount each student improved.
"Good, good", I say as I notice that all of the students improved over the course of the semester. All the post-test scores are higher than the pre-test scores. Most students improved by a couple of points... but my eyes are drawn to two sets of numbers.. two...
2020-12-0530 minxEE1.3.17 Our Universal JourneyA cat with an "incurable" kind of cancer. A job that is always tenuous. Human relationships that are fragile, unpredictable, and sometimes tumultuous. My own body, seemingly healthy- but still subject to disease, fatigue, and aging.
Life is unpredictable. However much we think we have a handle on it, the truth is we never really know what's to come. Everything can change in an instant. This is a tough truth to accept, for though we know intellectually that all things in life are impermanent, we often don't feel it instinctively. We persist in our attempts to control...
2020-12-0527 minxEE1.3.16 TPR & Listen FirstForeign language study has not been as successful as it should be. In fact, students are dropping like flies from foreign language programs. J.H. Lawson reports that the dropout rate in foreign language programs for American high school students is as high as 85% by the third year and 95% by the fourth year.
Another study by John B. Carroll found that students who had studied for two years had a less than satisfactory proficiency as measured by standardized tests, which means that the first two years did not allow the student to become proficient enough to hold...
2020-12-051h 01xEE1.3.15 Thriving On Chaos"It is easy to understand why many teachers revert to textbooks or worksheets when things around them are in constant, challenging motion, but they must learn to be in motion, too. The students are being loud; they are having a hard time paying attention to each other; they are having a hard time paying attention to the teacher. We all know that telling students to turn to page 37 and answer the questions can relieve chaos and make the room quieter for a time. I've recently heard of a new trend of teachers using wireless microphones in an effort to...
2020-12-0551 minxEE1.3.14 StorytellingTPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling).
"Suppose you want to remember a list of words... you will more readily remember the words if you make a sentence or sentences connecting the words in the form of a short story. You would remember it even better if the story was easy to visualize and best of all if you could picture a story that was dramatic, or vulgar, or comic, or in some way involved your emotions.
A story is in fact a good mnemonic, and the more elaborate the story the better. A story...
2020-12-0525 minxEE1.3.13 No BeliefThis remark was made, in these very words, by John Gribbin, physics editor of New Scientist magazine, in a BBC-TV debate with Malcolm Muggeridge, and it provoked incredulity on the part of most viewers. It seems to be a hangover of the medieval Catholic era that causes most people, even the educated, to think that everybody must "believe" something or other, that if one is not a theist, one must be a dogmatic atheist, and if one does not think Capitalism is perfect, one must believe fervently in Socialism, and if one does not have blind faith in X...
2020-12-0547 minxEE1.3.12 New Year's ResolutionsSo, have you made your New Year’s resolutions? What are your goals for the coming year? Do you have formal, written resolutionsor just a vague plan?
The tradition of the New Year's Resolutions goes all the way back to 153 BC. Janus, a mythical king of early Rome was placed at the head of the calendar.
With two faces, Janus could look back on past events and forward to the future. Janus became the ancient symbol for resolutions and many Romans asked for forgiveness from their enemies and also exchanged gifts before the beginning of ea...
2020-12-0529 minxEE1.3.11 Neo-BedouinsA new breed of worker, fueled by caffeine and using the tools of modern technology, is flourishing in the coffeehouses of San Francisco. Roaming from cafe to cafe and borrowing a name from the nomadic Arabs who wandered freely in the desert, they've come to be known as "bedouins."
San Francisco's modern-day bedouins are typically armed with laptops and cell phones, paying for their office space and Internet access by buying coffee and muffins.
San Francisco's bedouins see themselves changing the nature of the workplace, if not the world at large. They see large companies...
2020-12-0558 minxEE1.3.10 Microsoft’s Cyber CensorshipFrom Amnesty International
In December 2005 Microsoft cooperated with Chinese authorities to shut down the controversial blog of Zhao Jing (Michael Anti), a Beijing-based researcher for the New York Times, and an active critic of censorship in China.
The blog, which was hosted on servers located in the United States, was removed and was therefore censored not only in China but globally. Reacting to criticism, Microsoft claims to have implemented a new set of standards to ensure that they will only remove blogs when they receive formal legal notice from the Chinese government and that access...
2020-12-0541 minxEE1.3.9 Mind MapsA mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, and decision making.
It is an image-centered diagram that represents semantic or other connections between portions of information. By presenting these connections in a radial, non-linear graphical manner, it encourages a brainstorming approach to any given organizational task.
The elements are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the...
2020-12-0538 minxEE1.3.8 The Role of Media 2Let's begin with the first modern government propaganda. That was by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's government. Woodrow Wilson was elected President in 1916 on the slogan "Peace Without Victory". That was right in the middle of World War I. The population was extremely pacifistic and saw no reason to become involved in a European war. Wilson's government was actually committed to war and had to do something about it.
They created a government propaganda commission, named the Creel Commission, which succeeded within six months in turning a pacifistic population into a hysterical, war-mongering population... a population that...
2020-12-0555 minxEE1.3.7 The Role of Media 1The role of the media in contemporary politics forces us to ask what kind of a society we want to live in, and in particular in what sense of democracy do we want this to be a democratic society? Let me begin by counter-posing two different conceptions of democracy.
One conception of democracy has it that a democratic society is one in which the public has the means to participate in some meaningful way in the management of their own affairs and the means of information are open and free. If you look up “democracy” in the dict...
2020-12-0552 minxEE1.3.6 Lifestyle DiseasesThe major contributing factor to life style related diseases, typified by diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, is often obesity. Therefore, we have to think about losing surplus weight.
When I was watching TV the other day, I found a program which tried to introduce a way to cook low-calorie dishes. It showed food images for a full hour. Then they let 3 overweight guests eat 3 full servings of curry-rice (Japanese style curry with rice). The dishes were made with lower calories than normal but that “tasting” totaled 1,800 kcal.
If you have a chance to visi...
2020-12-0527 minxEE1.3.5. Jack KerouacJack Kerouac was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist.
While enjoying popularity but little critical success during his own lifetime, Kerouac is now considered one of America's most important authors. His spontaneous, confessional prose style inspired many other writers, including Tom Robbins, Lester Bangs, Hunter S. Thompson, and Bob Dylan.
Kerouac's best known works are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur and Visions of Cody.
He divided most of his adult life between roaming the vast American landscape and living with his mother. Faced with a changing country, Kerouac sought...
2020-12-0532 minxEE1.3.4 First BattleA howl from the opposing army..... swords thudded against shields... thunder beat in unison. Hearts pounded. I gripped my sword... and braced the shield against my shoulder. Giddy tendrils raced through my gut and chest....... a wild grin broke upon my face. I began to bounce.... knees spring-like.....standing on toes. A racehorse in the gate.
A wild shout went up to my left..... I turned to see a wiry warrior clad in sparkling scale and a green cape..... carrying a coffin shaped shield. He strode the front of our lines, turned to our enemies and threw...
2020-12-0552 minxEE1.3.3 Emotionally Intelligent HusbandsMy data on newlywed couples indicate that more husbands are being transformed. About 35 percent of the men we've studied fall into the category of "emotionally intelligent husbands". Research from previous decades suggests the number used to be much lower. Because this type of husband honors and respects his wife, he will be open to learning more about emotions from her. He will come to understand her world and those of his children and friends. He may not emote in the same way that his wife does, but he will learn how to better connect with her emotionally. As he...
2020-12-0453 minxEE1.3.2 Disobedience“Law never made men more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, privates and all, marching in admirable order over hills to the wars, against their wills, indeed, against their common sense and consciences. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? Or small movable forts, at...
2020-12-0427 minxEE1.3.1 Cafe PucciniMy favorite spot in San Francisco is Cafe Puccini- located in the North Beach neighborhood of the city. North Beach has a long and interesting history. It was originally the neighborhood for Italian immigrants in the city- and even today it has many Italian people, cafes, and restaurants. As a kid, the famous baseball player Joe Dimaggio lived in North Beach.
The most famous period for the neighborhood, however, was in the late 1950s and the 1960s--when North Beach served as the center of San Francisco's literary renaissance. In particular, North Beach was home to the Beat...
2020-12-0425 minxEE1.2.8 Obsessive BehaviorSON'S OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR
DEAR ABBY:
My nephew, "Vincent," is 16 and has had problems with obsessive handwashing for years. I have enough professional experience to strongly suspect that he suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
My brother and his wife refuse to believe their child has a problem and will not take him to get help. My nephew's hands are chafed and raw, and his parents reprimand him for this behavior when he really needs professional help.
His mother is the biggest problem. She nixes all issues that suggest a problem, and m...
2020-12-0446 minxEE1.2.7 NudistNEIGHBORS GET AN EYEFUL WHEN NUDIST STEPS OUTSIDE
DEAR ABBY:
We have a male neighbor I'll call "Flash" who frequently walks out to get his newspaper -- or the mail, or to retrieve something from his car -- while he's as naked as the day he was born. (He's in his late 50s and divorced.)
Some of the women in the neighborhood know not to look toward Flash's home if they're out for a walk. They have discovered that he is most likely in the buff, standing at his glass door or sitting...
2020-12-0442 minxEE1.2.6 Meddling Mother-In-LawWIFE READY TO WASH HER HANDS OF MEDDLING MOTHER-IN-LAW
DEAR ABBY:
How do I politely tell my mother-in-law to stop doing my laundry? It all started when I was on bed rest due
to my pregnancy. I didn't mind her doing an occasional load to help us out. But now she does it anytime she's
over to watch the kids. I'm very picky about how I do my laundry, and this is the main reason I don't want her doing it. Also, I'd prefer she spend time playing with the k...
2020-12-0450 minxEE1.2.5 Lost CustodyYOUNG MOTHER IS FRIGHTENED BY THREAT OF LOST CUSTODY
DEAR ABBY: I am 22 years old and have been married 17 months. "Derek" and I have a 23-month-old son. Derek hasn't
worked for about a year and refuses to help support our family. He also belittles me whenever he talks to me. I
am not happy in this marriage, but I am not sure what to do about it. On our honeymoon, Derek told me if I ever divorced him that he'd make sure he would get custody of our son. And his mom already...
2020-12-0448 minxEE1.2.4 Longtime AffairLONGTIME AFFAIR APPEARS SET TO LAST FOR LONG TIME TO COME
DEAR ABBY:
I'm married; he's married. We're in love and have been for eight years. We've tried breaking it off several times over the years, but a force bigger than both of us keeps bringing us back together.
I never believed in soulmates or true love until we met. Our love is deep and unconditional; our roots are intertwined. It's a shame that it happened late in life, but it happened nonetheless. He treats me like a queen.
Neither of us is leaving our spou...
2020-12-0456 minxEE1.2.3 Greek FamilyWOMAN WILL NEVER BE GREEK ENOUGH FOR HUSBAND'S FAMILY
DEAR ABBY:
I married a Greek man whose family never accepted me. Being young and naive, I tried everything to fit in, converting from Catholicism to the Greek Orthodox faith, attending all family functions, including them in our lives. It was never enough.
My husband and I traveled to Crete with his family to visit his relatives there, and some extended family members refused to share the dinner table with me because I was not Greek. One of those family members was a priest!
Our daughter, "A...
2020-12-0444 minxEE1.2.2 Double StandardFAMILY IS UNEASY WHEN ONE SISTER DATES OTHER'S EX-LOVER
DEAR ABBY:
My sister, "Jane," and I are both in our mid-50s. Jane has had numerous affairs over the past several years after her third divorce, and was involved in an "intimate relationship" with a terrific man, "Will," that lasted about three months. Jane broke up with Will several months after she decided he wasn't what she was looking for, and she's presently engaged to be married to a very nice man ("Sam") and seems very happy.
I dated Will several times before he a...
2020-12-0446 minxEE1.2.1 Bad ChoicesDear Dr. Tracy,
I am a 33 year old divorced woman with four kids. I was married for 12 years and I have been divorced for approximately 3 years. I met my new boyfriend during my divorce. We hit it off and have been together ever since. He is a 44 year old divorced man. When I met him he had been divorced for 2 years. Well, I met his ex-wife and she seemed to be an okay person. What I found out 3 months into my relationship with him was that he was fooling around with his ex-wife again-- who also at...
2020-12-0454 minxEE1.1.8 The raceIt’s 5 o’clock and Allen is riding his motorcycle in San Francisco. He is riding down Van Ness street
and comes to a stop light.
A red Ferrari pulls upnext to him. The driver’s wearing dark sun glasses. He looks over at Allen.
Allen looks at him and realizes that the driver is Tom Cruise!
Tom sneersat Allen. He says, “When the light turns green, let’s race”.
Allen says, “Allright, you’re on!”
Tom says, “I’m gonna smoke you, sucka!”
Allen says, “You wish. I’m gonna beat you and your sorry-asscar”.
2020-12-0450 minxEE1.1.7 Secret loveWOMANHESITATES TO REVEALSECRET LOVE FORCOLLEAGUE
DEAR ABBY:
I am a single woman in my early 30s who has never been married. I recently fell in love with a wonderful man with whomI spend a great deal of time. He is unawareof the intensity of my feelings,
and I’m afraid of telling him out of fear of rejection.
There are a couple of additional concerns: He is 15 years my seniorand a medical doctor. I am a
social worker in a lower economic class. In addition, we are of different religions, but we have similar sp...
2020-12-0446 minxEE1.1.6 IntimacyDEAR ABBY:
My husband, “James,” and I have been married only three years. We are both in our 20s.
Everything is really great between us — except our sex life. As far as he is concernedthat’s fine,
too, but I am not satisfied. It may seem oddto hear the female wants to have sex more frequently
than a young and healthy male, but that’s the casein our relationship.
Abby, I work with the publicand I get frequent remarksabout what a beautiful woman I am. This
makes it hard for me to believe that I don...
2020-12-0447 minxEE1.1.5 DragDear Abby: Twenty years ago, my sister and I bought a business from our mother. We all love and respect one another and get along well. We will be finished paying off the business in two years.
Our problem: Mom, who is now 77, still draws a salary from us above and beyond the payment for the business. Her workload has lessened greatly, as it should. She could do all of her work in one day and lessen the burden of her salary. However, she says she’d “go crazy” if she retired. We don’t want that. She coul...
2020-12-0449 minxEE1.1.4 ChangedNO AFFECTION ANYMORE
DEAR ABBY:
My husband of 39 years no longer hugs me or shows me any affection. I have seen him through cancer and diabetes. We have four grown children, and we have been seeing a therapist for a year and a half. He is kind, generous and friendly, but there are no compliments or any of the flirtatious banter we used to enjoy.
He swears he’s not having an affair, and he doesn’t know why he has changed. Perhaps you do?
– GRACE IN PHOENIX
2020-12-0447 minxEE1.1.3 Bubba’s foodSara Smith, who lives in San Francisco, went shopping for cat food.
Sara is 30, and lives at 3037 Market St. She has lived there since 1990. Sara is married. She is
married to a man named John. She has been married for 7 years.
They have two children, and one very big cat. Their son Bob is five years old and their daughter Nancy is three. Their cat, Bubba, is 2 years old. Bubba ishuge. He weighs 258 pounds (117 kilos)!
At 9am, Sara got into her car and drove to the pet store. She bought 68 bags of c...
2020-12-0459 minxEE1.1.2 A KissCarlos buys a new car. It’s a very expensive car. It’s a huge, blue, fast car. While driving down the treet, Carlos sees a girl on a bicycle.
She has long blond hair and is beautiful.
He yells to her, “What’s up?“
She ignores him.
He yells, “How’s it going?“
She keeps going and ignores him.
He yells, “Hey, why won’t you talk to me? I want to go to dinner with you. I’ll take you to an expensive restaurant.”
The girl turns, gets off...
2020-12-0438 minxEE1.1.1 Day of the DeadI arrive in Guatemala on The Day of the Dead, November 1st. I’m curious about this holiday, so I go to the cemetery to see what’s happening. What I find is quite interesting.
The atmosphere is like a party. There are people everywhere. Families are sitting around the graves of their dead ancestors. They clean the graves and add fresh flowers. I walk through the cemetery and admire the beauty of all the colorful flowers.
There is also color in the sky, because many kids are flying kites. Some families are having a picnic next to...
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