Word: beare
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...Angeles means to reduce it to rubble and build from scratch. But even those well-intentioned souls who hope to expand or restore an old house find that remodeling can be much more expensive than wrecking it and starting over. Anyway, in most cases the existing homes bear no resemblance to the sugarplums dancing in many Hollywood heads. Many of the mansions under construction, ornate stone boxes known among architects as "birthday cakes," average roughly 10,000 sq. ft.; the typical American home is 2,000 sq. ft. Among the popular features are recording studios, tanning parlors, servants' quarters, double...
...show in Burden included music by a local radio station, two professional dance groups and a number of acts by children in the clubs. Later in the day, Spunky T. Clown, Smokey the Bear and Alexander the Jester entertained the kids in Bright, which was filled with balloons, game booths and a tricycle obstacle course...
Nothing is safe from her depredations, not even endangered species. Government agents recently rounded up a band of poachers accused of slaughtering hundreds of black bears in the Northeastern U.S., ripping out their gallbladders and selling them for profit. The gallbladders are dried and ground into powder and sent to Asia, where they are sold for as much as $540 an oz. for "medicinal" purposes. Men who take a tiny pinch of the powder are convinced that it enhances their libido. They believe that if you devour parts of a powerful animal, you will absorb its sexual vitality...
...Montreal but raised mostly in Halifax, Robert MacNeil was the son of a seagoing Mountie (in Canada's equivalent of the Coast Guard) and a Nova Scotian mother who delighted in reading aloud to her sons. MacNeil's first nonbaby words were "gin fizz" -- the name of a teddy bear. He recalls being amazed, on a rare trip aboard his father's corvette, that sailing terms derived from Viking days (coxswain, starboard) still have a defining role in modern navies. MacNeil's memories of Nova Scotia have what D.H. Lawrence called a "spirit of place." In the book's best...
...vessel went down in international waters 120 miles southwest of Norway's Bear Island and about 310 miles west of Tromsoe, on Norway's northern coast...