Word: powerful
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...Many proponents of abstinence-only curricula wrote in to express their disappointment over what they saw as a misrepresentation of their position. Most abstinence classes, they told us, don't deny human sexuality. In fact, the classes acknowledge the power of the human sex drive and provide young people with ways of dealing with peer pressure and dating in order to remain abstinent. The decidedly non-secular foundation of some of these chastity-based programs, however, render them irrelevant to the debate over sex education in public schools; initiatives like the Southern Baptists' popular "True Love Waits" have strong religious...
...Thaw in microwave (two minutes on high power...
Reeling from the devastating loss of Dan Clemente for the season and the embarrassing loss to Colgate, the best the Harvard men's basketball team could hope for coming into this game was to find some semblance of poise and try to put in a good showing against Ivy power Dartmouth...
...answer is that Barkley, more than anyone, revolutionized the power forward position and gave the NBA a fresh, honest and funny voice. He gave the fans somebody to laugh at, but he wasn't a goof-off. He was the anti-Jordan, a player who played with neither swagger nor grace...
...like him now because I realize that he accomplished everything as a misfit. He was from Alabama when most players were from the cities. His size made him too short to be a power forward and too fat to be a small forward. But he learned to shoot the jumper, to take the ball down low in the post, and to make the steal or the block...