Word: agee
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...proved the vegan lifestyle protected people from tainted food. Three months after coining the term, he issued a formal explanation of the way the word should be pronounced: "Veegan, not Veejan," he wrote in his new Vegan Society newsletter, which had 25 subscribers. By the time Watson died at age 95 in 2005, there were 250,000 self-identifying vegans in Britain and 2 million in the U.S. Moby, Woody Harrelson and Fiona Apple are vegans. So is Dennis Kucinich...
...science professor, says the original delegates to the 1968 ConCon had no idea what would result from their inaugural convention. They were supposed to fix a problem with reapportionment districts that dated to statehood in 1959. But they did not stop there and went on to set the minimum age of state legislators at 18; set up a commission to determine legislative salaries; eliminate a requirement that people had to be able to read or write English or Hawaiian in order to vote; and wrote a constitutional provision granting privacy rights that Feder Lee says was ahead of its time...
...would be pulling for him through thick and thin though? No matter how much the Democrats might like striking deals with McCain, in the end they would be planning his demise in the next election. Meanwhile, given his age (72) and the long history of mistrust between McCain and the Republican right, his other flank would be in danger too. Conservatives would probably demand a steady stream of vetoes of Democratic legislation, and any failure to deliver would strengthen his younger gop rivals. The McCain-Palin relationship would be Washington's answer to King Arthur and Mordred...
...pocket money had been fresh and exciting in the way only foreign concepts can be.At first, I went for the cream of the crop—cafés, book shops, the hip record store I frequented downtown—but before long I realized the hard truth of age discrimination: my love for Kierkegaard and my carefully cultivated jeu d’esprit meant less than nothing to The Man at Borders who saw the number “16” on my application and, without so much as a glance at my qualifications, tossed...
...project their messages but they want it done on their terms and almost never in a natural, spontaneous way.” Grace’s gripes obscure the fact that, as Harvard Professor Kiku Adatto details in her recent book, “Picture Perfect: Life in the Age of the Photo Op,” this transformation could not have occurred without the media’s complicity. An industry more concerned with ratings than information, more conscious of sizzle than substance, sold the public propaganda that they had received straight from the campaigns. They unmistakably opted...