1.   Their mother ruled their life with a rod of iron.

2.   Scientists have always been aware of how fear can rule our lives and make us ill.

3.   I am not saying our lives should be ruled by guilt.Hardly.

4.   Now time rules our lives, most of us have at least one, if not two, clocks in every room.

5.   And for many years, baseball ruled my life.

6.   But the rituals come to rule their lives.

7.   Fear rules his life.

8.   For eight months, the O.J. Simpson trial ruled his life.

9.   Hanks plays Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose life is ruled by the clock.

10.   Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a Federal Express systems engineer whose life is ruled by the clock.