Word: comforting
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...time I eat something, my name constantly reminds me and others that I'm Jewish. It's an undeniable fact; true to my parents' wishes, the sheer obviousness of my religion makes it a non-issue. One upshot of the difficulty non-Jews have with my name is the comfort I feel around Jews. After a summer of spelling my name, the visit of an Israeli cousin who could spit it out in full guttural glory was soothing. People who say my name right on the first try win my instant approval and trust...
Humans are, if inadvertently, still giving aid and comfort to the enemy. As people push farther and farther into the tropical rain forests of Africa and South America, the world's great reservoirs of microbial horrors, they come into contact with diseases that have been circulating among animals probably for centuries. And while diseases have been jumping from animals to humans throughout history (hantavirus, AIDS and Ebola are only three recent examples), it was not until this century that the bugs could take advantage of jet-age transportation to leave the jungle and travel to hundreds or thousands of people...
...envy you your memories," she said. With rheumy eyes, we watched her walk away with a youthful spring in her step, and thought what cold comfort memories can sometimes...
...line catalog can be accessed from the comfort of one's dorm room with the touch of a button (http://www.digitas.harvard.edu...
...sound of a body being dropped to the floor. It traveled first from Finland across the Net and then bounced instantly to wired people everywhere in the world. If you like, you can experience that doomed moment yourself--it's still frozen there on the newsgroups that convene to comfort people in troubled times. On alt.sex.abuse.recovery, for instance, you'll find a discussion that begins with the subject line "The End of Penet.fi...