Word: though
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After the conventions, though, I was a little worried. Our kids may be gung-ho, but the older ones haven't got a clue about campaign-finance reform, and the youngest wouldn't know George W. from George of the Jungle. How could we translate their interest into a true political education? The numbers don't look good: according to the Federal Election Commission, less than one-third of 18-to-24-year-olds voted in the 1996 presidential election. If we want our oldest to go to the polls in '08, we have to get busy...
...Consider stock buybacks. For decades they were a comforting, surefire sign of management confidence. After the crash in 1987, hundreds of companies initiated plans to spend billions on their own dirt-cheap shares. That inspired investors to do the same and helped stanch the panic--a good thing. Today, though, buybacks can be more about funding management's stock options than about signaling its resolve...
...from the Bryant House stands the Harris House. Its winged roof is responsible for its nickname, "The Butterfly House," and it truly looks as though the building is about to lift off like the yellow lepidopteran fluttering nearby. And, also like a butterfly, it is light and airy. The sharply angled woodwork in the towering screened-in porch could be mistaken for the patterns on a diaphanous wing. The high quality of the workmanship would also please the exacting Norm Abram of This Old House...
...chronicler prefers the front lines, where he is at his best describing men, armed with only hand tools, hacking and scraping their way over 2,000 inhospitable miles. When black powder proved too slow in piercing mountain granite, more powerful but dangerously unstable nitroglycerin was used--even though that meant more blasters would...
There is little in Africa to make one happy: AIDS, civil wars, corrupt democracies, military governments and stagnant economies. Recently, though, there has been the glimmer of a renaissance, as the world has begun to focus more closely on the problems there. When I saw that TIME had celebrated the world's most powerful civil servant, Annan, an African, I felt hopeful. I am very, very proud to be an African. ASHER LULUFA VONGTAU Kaduna, Nigeria...