Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...thousand doting aunts. One of the reasons comedians make us laugh is that they see the world differently from us. They're ridiculously paranoid or filthy minded or clumsy. But Ellen is very warmly embraced by loads of folks. And as she has become more loved, she has become less lovable...
This means kids spend more time in after-school programs and less time riding bikes aimlessly in the neighborhood, more hours on the soccer field and fewer listening to dinner-table criticism about how bolting down those raw-meat sandwiches makes you look like a wild animal...
...their gender. We all need stocks that go up, don't we? And getting out of debt is important for everyone, isn't it? True, but things aren't quite equal. Thirty years into the feminist movement, breadwinners remain predominantly male. As a consequence, men have a lot less to lose financially in divorce or on the death of a spouse...
...performance art. Notre Dame de Paris, imported earlier this year to the new Paris (the Vegas hotel) from the old Paris (the French city) is an ambitious Les Miz-style opera that retells--drearily--the famed Hunchback tale. Even the town's hottest headliner, musical impressionist Danny Gans, devotes less time to the usual Vegas icons (Sinatra, Tony Bennett) than to relatively obscure (to the high rollers in the crowd, anyway) rock-era performers like Boz Scaggs and Aaron Neville...
Ashoka has funded more than 1,000 projects, from India to Mexico. Each joins the organization's worldwide network of like-minded social entrepreneurs, exchanging ideas and practical experience. Alumni include Mohammed Yunis, member of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank whose "microcredit" loans of less than $60 have made it possible for thousands of poor women to build their own homes--a success story that attracted attention during Hillary Clinton's trip to South Asia...