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“Fear is an act of the imagination,” said Karen Thompson Walker. “Not just an act of imagination, but an act of storytelling a kind of unconscious storytelling. So our fears are announcing these terrible stories to us.” Walker is a novelist whose scary stories explore common fears in uncommon circumstances. She said the famous shipwreck of the Essex of Nantucket is a warning about the power of fear. “In the middle of the ocean they had this idea that there were cannibals in that direction that really just activated some kind of primal, imaginative and salacious version of the story. And that story of like, ‘what if we arrive on the island and were eaten by cannibals’ was more powerful in their brains than this kind of maybe more subtle but more serious, ultimately, risk of starvation, she said. And so what happened is they chose the long route and most of them did not survive because they ran out of food. And by the time the last survivors were rescued, ....
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When considering her options for where to attend college and continue her track and cross country career, Copperas Cove High School senior Breonna Reese had on priority in mind: Her Christian faith. On Feb. 3, Reese joined six of her peers and signed a letter of intent to compete at Abilene Christian University in Abilene. âI feel like that was really important that I choose a school that will lift me up academically and spiritually, so that was really one of the main focuses,â Reese said in a phone interview on Feb. 13. Describing Abilene Christian as a âdream school,â Reese said she fell in love with the community feel of the campus and what the school stood for. ....
Get great content like this right in your inbox.Subscribe WASHINGTON, D.C. A general feeling among the guest speakers, retailers and technology companies participating in this year’s virtual NRF Show is that technology was the key to surviving the miserable pandemic of 2020. And, with several new strains of the novel coronavirus continuing to spread in 2021, retailers more than ever are looking to advanced technology to engage and serve their customers in the safest ways possible. “Saying this has been the craziest and most tumultuous time in retail history is an understatement,” Panos Anthos, founder and managing director of XRC Labs, a design-central retail innovation accelerator, said during NRF 2021: Retail s Big Show Chapter One, which took place in January. ....
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