Word: accepter
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...that made enemy soldiers mind-numbingly sexy to each other. (Sounds dangerous—and fabulous!) War-time orgies aside, the awards also mentioned a study on the effects of Viagra on jet-lagged hamsters. Diego A. Golombek, who conducted the study, flew in from Argentina to accept the Ig Nobel Aviation Prize. Why hamsters? Golombek explains, “We also tried it with worms...it didn’t work.” Ig Nobel Laureate and former Leverett House resident Francis M. Fesmire ’81 was also present. Fesmire won an award...
...Israelis do not reach a general framework?" asks an Arab source. "Do the Americans have something ready that they can pull out of their pocket and say, 'These are our suggestions?' And will they be willing, then, to use any kind of encouragement or pressure on Israel to accept certain issues...
...Though he did recurring TV guest bits, George didn't make the big bucks playing a dad or a lawyer on one of those long-running series whose residuals have provided silk cushions for hundreds of lesser actors. Few actors can accept only the roles they love in guaranteed masterpieces. George was a working actor, who took projects as they came his way. He once observed with a grunt and a smile that of all his work in the '80s he was probably best known as Tom Hanks' scowling, finally humiliated future father-in-law in the rowdy film Bachelor...
...climate wars are far from over, and there are still dissidents emerging to challenge the green mainstream. Unlike past skeptics, they accept the basics of global warming but question its severity and challenge the orthodox faith that Kyoto Protocol-style mandatory carbon cuts are the best way to save the planet. Call them the bad boys of environmentalism: gadflies like the Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg, who just came out with the book Cool It, and rebel greens like the political consultants Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, who detail their apostasy in Break Through. While their solutions may be flawed...
...badass persona when he logs on and makes fun of other people because he has no power to do it in real life,” Casagrande admits, adding, “It really is true.”However, Nadler isn’t quite as willing to accept the stigmatization.“Just as business transactions aren’t different in Amazon.com and a brick and mortar store,” he says, “so we’ll see that valuing things that are part of cyberspace will be an acceptable thing...