Word: avidly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Harvard knitters often knit on the sly; it's a hush-hush type of deal. Harvard's female population has spent its recent months slowly but surely converting into a caucus of avid knitters. Or perhaps they have always been knitting, and here is some evidence...
Carol Roberts, 64, is an avid collector of stuffed and ceramic penguins and donkeys. Subtlety has never been her style in decor--or in politics. Last week the former Democratic mayor of West Palm Beach used her spitfire stratagems to boost Al Gore. Wearing a tiny butterfly pin to mock the infamous ballot, she faced the cameras and vowed to count every last vote. Why wait for court approval? Why should the battle for the Constitution wait for a judge? "What happens? Do we go to jail?" she asked the lawyer for the board of canvassers. "Because I'm ready...
...world through their sons' eyes. "Boys are fed a diet of 'ideal' male bodies, from Batman to the stars of the WWF," he says. "So parents need to tell their boys--starting when they are small--that they don't have to look like these characters." Pope, himself an avid weight lifter, says parents should also educate themselves and their sons on the uses and dangers of supplements such as adrenal hormones. "Any kid can go into a store and buy 'andro' [formerly Mark McGwire's bulk-up drug, androstenedione] legally," he says, "but we still don't know what...
...been peculiarly silent on this issue. Vice President Al Gore 69 has long been an avid proponent of using the U.S. influence for so-called nation-building missions. It is Gbagbos own responsibility to avoid the looming civil war, but the only way to do so is to promise fully democratic elections. The White House should urge Gbagbo to agree to such a step and offer full administrative support in overseeing such an election process...
Make no doubt about it, when it comes to environment, Gore has the clear edge. The author of the 1992 manifesto Earth in the Balance is an avid supporter of the Kyoto protocol--a 1997 commitment signed by over 100 countries to stem global emissions of greenhouse gases. By contrast, Bush's home state of Texas has the dubious distinction of having one of the worst environmental records in the nation. Gore has vowed to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil exploration and is committed to saving the everglades. Bush, by contrast, has presented unconvincing proposals that would...