Word: avid
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...internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder With summer just around the corner, the alpine hills will soon be alive with the sound of whooping and squealing as novice paragliders go over the edge for the first time. As an avid paraglider, I can confirm that soaring high over hills and rooftops, carried only by the wind, is one of the most exhilarating, thrilling and uplifting experiences you can have. And almost anyone can do it. You don't have to be a world-class athlete: physical conditioning is less important than...
...want a weekend off, that’s kind of crappy,” says the surprisingly laid-back Spahr, who has been an avid astronomer since spying a comet at the age of five. “Only two of us [in the world] are tasked specifically with dealing with near-Earth asteroids...
Ellwood will be the first Harvard College alum to be dean of the KSG. As an undergraduate, Ellwood—an economics concentrator in Currier House—was involved in the American Field Service, a cultural exchange program. He was also an avid hiker and had already become keenly interested in politics...
Sure, this is just a silly reality show. But with over 18,000 avid viewers, their actions certainly weren’t going unnoticed. These women were intelligent, successful rising stars with real future potential. The female contestants included a senior account executive, a political consultant working toward her doctorate, a multimillion-dollar real estate agent and a former global promotional marketing manager. But rather than utilize their experience and their brains, these women degenerated from promising potential business gurus to sexually-fixated jokes. For an industry that already has too few female role models, it is unfortunate that...
...achieved sainthood through his humanity. Even in the face of his suicide, drug addiction and his apparent attempts to disguise his own careerism, I cannot help but feel that there was something extraordinarily benign about his sense of alienation from the testosterone-driven culture of his home town, his avid defense of gay rights and his firm belief that women, rather than men, should rule the world. But if Cobain is a saint, then we must reexamine our definition of sainthood. Cobain’s brand was not one founded on moral perfectionism, guilt or self-flagellation, but one that...