Word: avidity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Today's children--born into disposable diapers, weaned on throwaway juice boxes and spoon-fed from single-serving snack cups--are avid consumers of the culture of convenience. But theirs is also the first generation to learn the three Rs of environmentalism (reduce, recycle, reuse), right along with the more traditional Rs of grade school...
After retiring as a manager from Digital Equipment Corp. in 1994, Al Pink planned to start just such a business with his wife. In 1996 the couple, both avid golfers, opened Southern Appeal (www. southernappeal.com) an online store that sells such golf-related trinkets as golf-club stands and golf-bag-shaped Christmas stockings. Before they could open for business, they had to obtain a merchant account number for credit-card transactions from a local bank in Roswell, Ga., and buy specialized software to keep track of inventory on someone else's shelves. It was a lot of extra trouble...
...while his literary production grew and he became a Nobel Laureate and one of the most important literary influences of the 20th century, Hemingway's public persona expanded as well, and threatened even to overshadow the writing: Hemingway the brave idealist, the avid fisherman, the boxer. The mythic man impinged on the literary production all the more so because his poise and his life ran together--some would say to the extent that the discussion of one can not help but bleed into a discussion of the other. There was a sportsman's code to which he held himself...
...avid reader of PEOPLE, but until a few weeks ago, I didn't know what Mavis Leno looked like. The wife of Jay Leno is an aggressive homebody, and for all the outside world knew of her, she might as well have been wrapped in a burka, the full-body shroud Afghan women are forced to wear. But she's emerged to give voice to those very women. "Silence," she says, "is killing" the women of Afghanistan, where the Taliban, an extreme faction of mujahedin, largely composed of Lord of the Flies-like boy soldiers, swept to power...
...wormholes. Says Richard Kuhta, librarian of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington: "You can do everything but smell the book." What's more, readers can instantly search these digital copies, unlike the originals, to find a word or phrase. Co-founded by Adobe Systems CEO John Warnock, an avid rare-book collector, Octavo has so far published 15 titles. Others soon to come include Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the Wycliffe New Testament (the first English translation). Octavo CD-ROMs cost $20 to $50 and are available at www.octavo.com...