"That's why we choose comets to study".
That's why we choose to stay anonymous".
Journalists and commentators have to think again about why we choose whom we do to represent a community.
Let's face it, there are good reasons why we choose to sublimate the snot factor during the period of mourning.
Who knows why we choose the colors we live with, or wear, or why one color makes us feel calm and another irritable?
What's less clear now is what we study the canon for and why we choose the tools we employ in doing so.
If It's Not One Addiction, It's Another What Volkow and other researchers can't yet explain is why we choose one particular manifestation of addiction over another.
In another triptych, "Tattoos," two anecdotes -- a drunken sailor getting tattooed in Chicago in 1969, and a Maori youth undergoing initiation in 1890 -- frame a long, discursive poem about why we choose to adorn our bodies.
I'm not sure why we choose to domesticate violence in this way -- maybe it's a throwback to the ancient deities -- but no one has invoked the paradox with more lyric poignancy than the poet Randall Jarrell, who wrote: "In bombers named for girls, we burned/The cities we had learned about in school".
HE remains undecided about what, beyond turning a portion into park land, should happen at the site, insisting that redevelopment should evolve "from a conversation about why we choose to live in cities, and some of those reasons aren't office space".
Here Oz is more interested in why we choose to live among others, knowing that we die alone: in the end, he suggests, it's for the shared pleasures of our physical existence — whether that pleasure is food, sex, or the sound of waves outside the window.
