Word: avid
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...learn by playing. They pick up counting skills from duck-duck-goose and learn strategy from checkers, card games and sports. So when they play violent video games, are they learning to kill and maim? Many parents began asking this question when they learned that the Columbine killers were avid players of Doom--a game that teaches killing skills so effectively that the U.S. military uses a modified version to train its soldiers...
After vacationing for years in other parts of Colorado, Carolyn and Warren Phillips came to Montrose four years ago from Lansing, Mich. "It's a great life if you like the outdoors," says Carolyn, an avid skier. "You can play all year round here...
...star of Titanic proportions: LEONARDO DICAPRIO. By signing up to help save the planet, Leo joins a distinguished list of notables who have used their celebrity to draw attention to environmental issues. TV actor TED DANSON founded the American Oceans Campaign, Academy Award winner SUSAN SARANDON is an avid supporter of Mark Plotkin's Amazon Conservation Team, STING throws an annual rain-forest benefit concert in New York City's Carnegie Hall, writer ARUNDHATI ROY has campaigned to stop the building of dams on India's Narmada River, Hong Kong actor CHOW YUN-FAT has done promotional work...
Ulam was also an avid sports fan--a tennis player and Red Sox devotee...
Though his political reputation has been somewhat sullied by the results of the primary campaign in his state, Governor A. Paul Cellucci, an avid Bush supporter, was greeted with cheers and whistles when he began to address the crowd...