Word: commonized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, the sport's stark metaphor--a human leaving safety behind to leap into the void--may be a perfect fit with our times. As extreme a risk taker as McGuire seems, we may all have more in common with him than we know or care to admit. Heading into the millennium, America has embarked on a national orgy of thrill seeking and risk taking. The rise of adventure and extreme sports like BASE jumping, snowboarding, ice climbing, skateboarding and paragliding is merely the most vivid manifestation of this new national behavior. Investors once content to buy stocks and hold...
Though the bestial community is extremely diverse, embracing individuals from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds, we share a common experience of oppression and misunderstanding. We have been marginalized by an anthroposexist society solely on the basis of whom we choose to love. Because we refuse to form relationships according to socially constructed categories such as "species," we represent a fundamental challenge to the institutions and assumptions of specialist, theriophobic Western culture...
What You Didn't Know: The Lower Common Room features a small but working pipe organ...
Then, Thursday night, I started reporting. I went to a party my roommate was living in the common room, and lo and behold, I found seniors! I used the opportunity to interview a couple of them that I didn't know, and I also interviewed one of my blockmates. Ethics--journalistic and otherwise--don't matter that much in your final semester...
...WHAT? Does it sometimes seem that the 74 English-speaking countries are separated by a common language? Encarta has created the first world English dictionary. We asked them for some help. Here's the resulting glossolalia glossary...