Word: abound
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...middle to high school. For them, this year merely represented a new combination of buildings, teachers and students. But for Norberg it had always been one teacher, one home, one student.From the crazy Christian to the child star, the free-loving hippie to the overprotected prig, homeschool stereotypes abound. But for a handful of homeschooled students like Norberg, these cardboard cutouts seem to be both oddly accurate and grossly inadequate, an incomplete picture of the colorful lives that led these students from their kitchen tables to Harvard Hall. The question is, now that they’re here, can they...
While seemingly erotic positions abound in yoga (Downward Facing Dog), nowhere is the penis more prominent than in Bob Sparling’s male naked yoga class. But don’t get the wrong idea: the class, which meets three times a week with about fifteen unbridled individuals, is not meant to be sexual. “It’s about yoga that happens to be naked more than about naked yoga,” says participant Daniel K. O’Neil, dismissing stereotypes of the class as a gay cruising center. In order to ensure...
...Arab hip-hop doesn't get airplay on stuffy state-run radio and TV stations around the Middle East, so rappers have turned to MySpace.com and other Internet sites to find their audiences. No record deals are in the works for the Gaza crew, but fans abound in the Middle East, Europe and the U.S.; PR's website has had thousands of visitors since last June, according to Al Farra...
...over nights at clubs and under-21 attendance at concerts held at local clubs. For students and young people, this move represents another symptom of the city’s unique penchant for enacting stifling regulation. Worse, officials seem incapable of validating the drastic action taken, and ambiguity abounds. Patricia A. Malone, the city’s director of consumer affairs and licensing, issued the mandate, labeled “temporary,” to curb a purported surge in violence at nightclubs, the nature of which has yet to be disclosed to the public. Malone argued the directive...
...that can get a deal and remain a hermit. Contracts now come with book signings, public talks, and television appearances as a required part of the package. It used to be that writing a book made you a celebrity; now, being a celebrity gets you a book deal. Bookstores abound with middling memoirs that made it through publishing houses because of the author’s name recognition. Of course, some celebrities do write “real” books. Jimmy Carter wrote a novel that, to most reports, wasn’t half bad, though it does have...