Like the good people of Carcassone, I forgo tomatoes.

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However, since there remains in some of us a dim, almost vestigial, memory of the ancient, sacred rites of journalism, I knew I needed to forgo Tweezer and Facepick and reach for a telephone.

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At one point I even had to forgo my senior season of baseball at the University of Akron in order to take the required classes at that time so that my graduation would not be pushed out one semester causing me to default on my loans.

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Never did anyone mention taxes as a reason to forgo an investment opportunity that I offered.

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As I look at my team at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, and at a handful of other SETI teams around the globe, I see very clever individuals who have been willing to forgo the traditional challenges and rewards of academic research to work on a program of immense potential -- to do work that can literally change the world.

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Like many people, I had believed that hospice care hastens death, because patients forgo hospital treatments and are allowed high-dose narcotics to combat pain.

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