Word: climbing
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...Bandwidth use has been growing steadily over the past year… it's a steep climb," says Manager of Network Engineering and Planning Leo Donnelly...
...Karen do. "They are just like normal kids," says Avudh Aree, 60, a Karen living across the Thai border who also knows the twins and thinks the stories of their special powers are exaggerated. "They play with dogs and cats, climb trees." Some suspect they are manipulated by adults. Members of the mainstream Karen resistance, who are more conventional Christians, regard the twins as little better than heretics. "They aren't God's Army--they are Satan's Army," says Major Mary Ohn of the Karen Refugee Committee. "God has no children with guns." The mainstream Karen rebels have reason...
Often the reasons have to do with professional advancement. An unknown writer with no other means of getting noticed will attack someone to climb upward. Not long ago, a fellow wrote an ambitious op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal attacking me as the worst writer in history. (I shall try to improve.) But even important writers will attack for success. James Baldwin admitted that he felt he had to "kill" Richard Wright in an essay, to supplant...
...success in Hollywood can be fickle, so Swank has hired a team to help her climb through the window of opportunity that Boys has opened. A publicist (cost: around $2,500 a month) was brought in to build Oscar buzz. A new stylist (paid per event) is helping her glam up. "It's so weird. I get calls from designers: 'We'll send a look book. Just tell us what you want,'" says Swank, whose current taste for Valentino should avert barbs from E! channel fashionista Joan Rivers. And the agent who negotiated the deal for Boys...
While the entire continent continues to reel from the disease, eastern and southern Africa have been hit with particularly staggering numbers of AIDS cases. More than 10 million children have been orphaned by the disease, and experts predict the numbers will continue to climb unless extraordinary measures are taken...