Word: flocking
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...Despite these provisos, Weiskopf, who says he has taken the tonic hundreds of times "with everyone from guerrillas to government ministers," remains a passionate advocate for ayahuasca. A growing flock of travelers are heading to Latin America to explore the experience for themselves...
...where Catholic ranks have swelled some 20% since 2002. His Holiness courted controversy at the start of his voyage by reiterating the church's stance against condoms, saying their use "increases the problem" of HIV and AIDS. The Pope's trip is intended to solidify relations with his growing flock on the continent and will include meetings with Christian and Muslim leaders...
Memorial Church seems, at first glance, to be a vestige of Harvard’s Puritan roots. The austere brick façade evokes the covenanted communities of New England from which Harvard men used to flock. Accordingly, Memorial Church is Protestant...
...Some of this year's Final Four spending won't even stay in the country. More than half of the several thousand college basketball coaches who flock to the Final Four for their annual convention will be lodging across the river - and border - in Windsor, Ontario. Don't underestimate the financial clout of the coaches, who wander around the host city in their schools' sweat suits (Look, there goes Coach K from Duke! And over there, an assistant coach from Le Moyne!), angling for job gossip and drinking lots of beer. We're talking buckets of beer. And since both...
...Benedict, for better or worse, should have learned by now: inflammatory rhetoric begets inflammatory rhetoric. What is less clear is whether this and the other recent firestorms he has sparked make the Pope more or less relevant to the citizens of the world - and to members of his own flock...