Word: circuiter
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...shaped tables, with black briefing books, white papers and discussion points. At symposiums morning, noon and night, she presides with brow furrowed, lips pursed -- sometimes speaking, sometimes listening, always taking notes. At hearings when 1,000 seats are available, gymnasiums have to be set up with closed- circuit TV to accommodate the overflow. In a field where there is little drama, she has interjected some, picking fights with her designated bullies of the system, the doctors and drug companies that have been making huge profits. Every witness has his or her own horror story about getting sick, and Hillary listens...
...these people are victimized on the basis of nothing more than their status. In their view, society should announce its values by placing a heavier weight of disapproval on crimes of hatred. Even without such laws, judges will sometimes take matters into their own hands. In December, Broward County Circuit Judge Richard Eade sentenced Bradley Mills to 50 years in prison -- going far beyond the 22 years that sentencing guidelines suggest -- for Mills' part in the murder of Lu Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American student at the University of Miami who was beaten to death by a mob of white partygoers...
...railway brakeman. He also made a friend, nicknamed College, whose family in Maine welcomed Jonathan after their son's death. Jonathan traveled the country in a vain search for his father -- someone to give him an anchor and a bloodline. In time he became a circuit rider and a pioneer farmer. He married and sired children. He neither forgot nor forgave the past. The novel's climax is a fatal, vengeful encounter with his boyhood nemesis, Alvah Stoke's son George, who had become a U.S. Senator...
...space shuttle Discovery putting on a spectacular light show on its way into orbit for eight days of atmospheric research. The successful -- at last! -- launch was a big relief for NASA. Two days earlier, Discovery's countdown was halted 11 seconds before lift-off because of a faulty computer circuit. Two weeks before that miscue, a mission by sister shuttle Columbia was scrubbed just three seconds before launch, after a valve got stuck. Columbia is still sitting on the ground at Cape Canaveral...
...building a $1.5 billion reactor to produce electricity. The device would be partly fueled from Moscow's huge stockpile of scrapped nuclear warheads. But some officers at a Moscow air-defense unit came up with their own way to enhance disarmament: they were stealing gold and platinum from the circuit boards of missiles and selling it. A captain and two junior sergeants netted $28,000 worth of precious metals before being arrested...