Word: bothered
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...friends. The friend-less were left to wander the streets, homeless and lonely, while Dean Lewis stretched out at home by a fire, smoked his pipe and patted his dog on the head. All was quiet on the administrators’ front—there was no need to bother helping students. “Chalk it up to another learning experience outside the classroom,” one administrator was rumored to have said. After thinking hard for a minute, the administrator added, “Fires might be a good way to alleviate the housing shortage?...
...Most binge-eating experts see the disorder as a form of bulimia nervosa, in which people eat compulsively and then purge, usually by vomiting. Binge-eaters will complete the eating part, but not bother purging. Beside the sheer quantity of food consumed, there are other signs of a sincere problem. Bingers tend to indulge in the evening or at night, not around normal meal times. Episodes last under an hour, during which 1,500 calories or more are consumed. Afterwards, besides feeling unbearably stuffed, bingers are ashamed and guilt-ridden. More women than men are afflicted, but not disproportionately...
After seven weeks of investigations there is no hard evidence that links the Hamburg cell to any other. There are fragments of a puzzle--Atta made a 10-day trip to Spain from Miami in July that continues to bother investigators, while French sources still think that Moussaoui may be connected to the Hamburg cell--but many pieces are missing...
...bother to note that the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, V.S. Naipaul, is from Trinidad when, as you reported, he has no affinity for his birthplace? I am proud to be from Trinidad and Tobago. I do not romanticize the country, but neither do I denigrate it. Naipaul's attitude shows how well the colonial masters succeeded in their job of brainwashing. I am grateful that for every Naipaul, there is a Trinidadian writer like Earl Lovelace and a calypso musician like David Rudder. SUZETTE DE COTEAU Reading, England
...struggled to fill in the blank behind the yellow church and the Customs House, mostly because my vision of the towers had already begun to fade. Partly because they were so familiar that I never really knew exactly what they looked like, and partly because you do not bother to make a memory of what you never thought you would have to remember. The towers had loomed protectively over hide-and-go-seek games, my first bike ride, the time Adele Kudish tripped over me running through the spray of an open fire hydrant at my 10th birthday party...