Word: aunt
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...carry rather than on the people carrying them. They want more information about passengers put into the airlines' computer data bank, information that would enable veteran flyers with clean records to escape the shakedowns and allow more scrutiny of those who may pose a risk. As Baumgartner puts it, "Aunt Mildred is not the problem...
...Titanic disaster, upon which 1997's Oscar-winning film was based; after a battle with Parkinson's disease; in New York City. As a boy, Lord became fascinated with the sinking of the world's biggest ship after finding a slim volume on the tragedy in his aunt's home. His meticulous approach to reconstructing events--he interviewed 63 of the survivors--turned the 1955 book into a best seller...
...should know; after writing "Soul Food" in 1998, she embarked on a new culinary project: "Brown Sugar: Soul Food Desserts from Family and Friends," scheduled to be published by HarperCollins in January. Her new book features more than 100 desserts, many from her own family, including grandma Addie, great-aunt Agnes and Aunt Mary. One's waistline expands just thinking about the desserts from the American South: everything from molasses cookies to coconut cake, banana pudding and homemade candy...
...probably the most repeated line from the movie Spider-Man: Peter Parker's ailing Aunt May asks her doting nephew not to work so hard. After all, she reminds him, "you're not Superman." The joke is on her, because we know that her nephew is in fact a superhero; but it's also on us, because she has pinpointed what we like about not only Spider-Man and his geeky-sweet alter ego Peter, but most of the masked marvels we've followed from the comics to the screen. We don't want our superheroes to be invulnerable Supermen...
...murderous ideologies. For 44 years, the Continent was divided as never before. The legacy of all this is a deep aversion to--almost a loathing of--military force. For many modern Europeans, war is a ghastly, primitive business. (Every time I call my 95-year-old aunt in Britain, I get a little lecture on the evils of cluster bombs.) War is a last resort; those ready to use it quickly--or, worse, who appear to enjoy it--are not to be trusted. That's why Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, a folksy hero in the U.S., is considered...