Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.
I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.
I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring.
AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.
I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'
Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline.
The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next day to run for public office to run for Congress, I had to pay first dollar.
Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company - it's a relief simply to know there are fellow-sufferers out there.
Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.
