FOR Roger Lextrait, 63, living in seclusion seemed like an appealing change, after a harried life as a restaurateur in Portland, Ore.
THE math that made borrowing so appealing changed months ago, however, when lenders yanked credit from the shakiest borrowers and raised rates on all but the soundest ones.
Tackling some half marathons or 10Ks sounds like an appealing change of pace to me.
I know that this will not immediately strike most people as an appealing change, but the simple truth is that while we have continued to bumble along romantically in much the same fashion as always, science has made great strides in understanding the secret springs of attraction.
The differences were magnified last week, when Britain's chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, sent a letter to colleagues appealing for changes to allow farmers to react more to demand.
Like almost every other figure in the discussion over head injuries in football, she is appealing to change the sport, not abandon it.
Millions of mostly young Europeans are already accustomed to sharing experience and concerns about social issues, or directly to appealing for change of social situations by using social media.
Recent reports from the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academies have focused on the challenges of toxicology and human risk assessment, appealing for dramatic changes to move forward (National Research Council 2007a, 2007b).
Given my vote of No Confidence in the ability of the U.S. government to solve problems, instead of appealing for a change in the law, even an obvious change in the law, such as, say - automatically granting graduates of top U.S. universities work Visas - I will not appeal to you, or to our government.
(Whether the food was appealing enough to change anyone's vote remains debatable, since she lost Iowa to Barack Obama).
