Word: rowse
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To understand how infinitesimally narrow the digital divide can be, you need only enter the Emergency Housing Consortium's homeless shelter in San Jose, Calif., on a school night. Walk past the guard at the reception desk, down past the rows of slightly musty bunk beds, past the red-eyed...
The reading itself ranged from older poems like "Divisions of Labor" (which focuses on women in the back rows of politics) to works from her most recent publication, Midnight Salvage, and concluded with the poet sharing two new poems with the audience. Empathy for the troubles of the persecuted shone...
Back aboard the plane for the flight to Austin, Bush did something he hadn't done in a long time: he came back to talk to the reporters. He went from row to row, shaking hands. He was far more sober and serious than the candidate they usually saw on...
"If a kid wants to sharpen a pencil often the whole row has to get up," she says. "The rows are so close together, when they back up they smash fingers."
In reality, the antivaccine activists demonstrate both medical illiteracy and an appalling ignorance of history. What happened to the quarantine notices that were once routinely posted on houses afflicted by measles, mumps or whooping cough? Or the long rows of iron lungs filled with polio victims unable to breathe on...