Word: selfishly
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Kudos to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for donating unwanted fur coats to the homeless [Jan. 24]. I wish I could say I have never worn fur, but I have a rabbit-fur coat hanging in the back of my closet from my more selfish days. I'm going to send it to PETA. I can't bring the animals back, but I can help provide a little warmth to people in desperate need...
...Christmas dinner party at which Gemma and Charlie are seated. The hostess looms to the left, while a man scolds a child at the right, with all the other characters carefully positioned in the space to display a different state of mind. In a brilliantly satiric take on selfish love, Simmonds uses a thought balloon inside a thought balloon as Gemma fondly thinks of her lover fondly thinking...
...blowing them to pieces? Because the United Nations is, and has been for some time, corrupt. The media should lose their outdated awe for the United Nations and recognize it for what it is: not a utopian world-government but a Byzantine, unaccountable, deeply flawed and all too often selfish bureaucracy...
...Times in the Arctic "Meltdown!" [Nov. 22], your article on the impact of global warming in the Arctic, was especially timely in the wake of the re-election of Bush, who so arrogantly dismissed the Kyoto Protocol. The U.S. is a nation of selfish materialists who refuse to be good stewards of the earth, and we deserve every abuse Mother Nature heaps upon us. It's just too bad the rest of the world has to suffer with us. Cheryl Clark Calera, Oklahoma...
...Meltdown!" [Nov 22], your article on the impact of global warming in the Arctic, was especially timely in the wake of the re-election of Bush, who so arrogantly dismissed the Kyoto Protocol. The U.S. is a nation of selfish materialists who refuse to be good stewards of the earth, and we deserve every abuse Mother Nature heaps upon us. It's just too bad the rest of the world has to suffer with...