Word: deepest
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Most reporters like to tell adventure stories, but when the subject of encounters with dangerous animals comes up, I usually keep quiet. That's because the one time I went trekking in the deepest jungles of Borneo, I came no closer to a threatening beast than the surprised face of a wild boar being roasted over an open fire by a tribe of nomads. It's also because on the way home from that trip, I rewarded myself with a stay in one of my favorite hotels in Malaysia - Lone Pine, a newly refurbished relic of colonial days...
...warned that "the future of the Communion itself will be put in jeopardy" if the American Episcopalians on Nov. 2 consecrate Canon Gene Robinson, an openly gay priest, as Bishop of New Hampshire. Such a move, the primates said, would "tear the fabric of our Communion at its deepest level." But the New Hampshire diocese shows no sign of backing down. And so traditionalists, who dominate the Anglican churches in the Third World, are likely to break Communion with the liberals. A promised commission report in a year on how to handle gay issues appears unlikely to prevent a rift...
...dark. But these rituals seem inadequate for coping with some truly terrifying scenarios: "dirty bombs" slipped into the country, a smallpox outbreak. Well, there's help on the way. A variety of companies and laboratories, some fostered by Washington, are rushing to produce technologies that address our deepest post-9/11 fears. Many will come on line in the next year or two. The effort recalls the last time we launched a concerted attempt to resist a mortal threat: World War II's Manhattan Project, which produced the Bomb. This time the enemy is murkier and the battle more diffuse...
...Daniel Harding, 28, England. Of all the musical professions, conductors tend to reach their peak in later years, after acquiring the life experience and authority to mine the deepest riches of an orchestra. None of which bothers Harding. "It is an older man's game," he concedes. "But the great conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler made his debut at 19, so there are exceptions!" Harding is making his own rules. As a young teenager in Oxford he would conduct groups of friends on weekends. Artistically ambitious, he decided to try a rare piece by Schönberg, but found...
...being famous in a celebrity-obsessed age. Like the real royal family, he has seen details of his personal life - failed marriage, broken friendships, dental problems - chewed over obsessively by the jaundiced curs of the British press. Now it's payback time. Yellow Dog may not be the deepest, most Booker-worthy novel Amis ever wrote, but it's such nasty, inventive, satisfying fun that his critics will be panting with envy...