Word: spirits
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...Oprah continues in her message to her readers, “This magazine is about spirit.” What spirit could Oprah be referring to? The spirit that gives your hard-earned money to Oprah through a subscription to her magazine and that inevitably sells your soul to its true leader, Oprah...
...wealthy countries, when lots of kids didn't need an SUV or a big yellow bus to get to school. In a throwback to simpler days, Canadian activists are touting "the Walking School Bus," a pollution-free mode of transportation that requires only two legs and an energetic spirit. The Greenest City, a Toronto group, encourages children from the same neighborhood to walk to school together--with one adult chaperone for every four kids. Forty schools have signed...
...Gnutella" and "FreeNet" may allow the Napster-like sharing of all types of data, not just MP3 files, and such services would be difficult to shut down because they would not rely, as does Napster, on a central server for searches. However, if carried to its conclusion, the spirit in which the lawsuit was filed would make universities into electronic gatekeepers, watching each packet of data sent across the network and monitoring students' activities online for fear of being held legally responsible for any of their misdeeds...
There's the paradox. Because if one sentiment links the antiglobalists, besides their concern for the world's have-nots, it's a distrust of the large, of the enormous (except for Big Labor--for now). Their spirit recalls a conflict from the '70s that also pitted young idealists against a fearsome acronym. When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, moved by a belief that small is beautiful and big is hideous, set out to build a personal computer that would challenge IBM's great mainframes, their aim was not merely technical but also social. They wanted to bring power...
Pope John Paul's courage, moral integrity and indomitable spirit set him apart from all other world leaders. His words and actions during this trip may not have appeased or pleased everyone. Yet when I listened to his words at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and saw his shaking hand touch the Western Wall, I knew this was a man of peace for people of all nationalities and faiths. PAULA DELFIORE Cranston...