Word: braved
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Some customers don’t seem to mind the cold weather. Though the concentration of people ordering ice cream is noticeably less than in the summer, those who did brave the chill seemed happy with their decision...
...Naturally, a number of TIME's readers had their own thoughts about who should be Person of the Year. The Iraq war got its share of attention with nominations for "the brave soldiers and innocent victims who have perished in the Iraqi conflict." There was a concerted letter-writing campaign for Viktor Yushchenko, who finally succeeded in winning the disputed Ukrainian presidential election. His supporters praised him as "a prime example of someone who is truly fighting for democracy." A Salt Lake City, Utah, reader had this idea: "A better choice would have been the American people. We weathered...
...Jake look through a stack of her pinup photos. "You did this? And you did this?" he asks, smiling but confused. She smiles back and sheepishly asks if he thinks the pictures are "nuts." The scenes are disturbing but touching too, and Allen is appealingly understated in them. (Brave too, since in real life, she actually did those Cuervo, Baywatch and Emmanuelle gigs...
mile away and chats on his cell phone. Except for turning the combine around at the end of each row and the occasional moment when he has to brave the autumn chill to yank clogged ears out of the 30-ft. header, Mitchell's work in his cab more closely resembles a corporate employee's than that of a farmer. In fact, Mitchell calls his combine his "office on wheels...
...brave new world of cloned babies has yet to materialize, but each year scientists get closer to copying humans. South Korean scientists announced in February that with improved techniques they managed to get cloned embryos to survive long enough for them to extract the world's first cloned human stem cells. In theory, such cells could be used to create any of the body's more than 200 tissue types. While that possibility is still years away, the new techniques could someday be used to obtain replacement tissue for patients using their own cells--thus avoiding the need for donors...