Word: crag
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...greenest of the green join Carbon Ration Action Groups (CRAGS), whose members pledge to reduce their personal carbon dioxide emissions. Britain already has 14 active CRAG chapters, and a few are just starting to develop in the U.S. To Surrey CRAG member Jonathan Essex--who stays under his carbon limit by avoiding air travel--that just means Britain has to embrace its leadership role on the environment. "We've got to set an example for others to follow," he says...
...greenest of the green join Carbon Ration Action Groups (CRAGS), whose members pledge to reduce their personal carbon dioxide emissions. There are already 14 active CRAG chapters across Britain, but so far none elsewhere in the world. To Surrey CRAG member Jonathan Essex - who stays under his carbon limit by avoiding air travel - that just means Britain has to embrace its leadership role on the environment. "We've got to set an example for others to follow," he says...
...tried to bring to Harvard, but they were rejected. Nevertheless it was a lot of fun trying to force ourselves upon you, no matter how times you socked us in the nuts and dove for a blue phone panic button like it was the peak of the Aggro Crag. Though six out of seven days we fall asleep in the basement storage room of some anonymous Yard dormitory feeling like the boy who just placed third to two girls on Global Guts, it’s that seventh day when we wake up in UHS with one of our best...
With a political statement this pungent, Le Carre knows he runs the risk of alienating his sizable American following, even of coming off as a crank--an aging, forgotten ex-spook railing at the world from his Cornish crag. He also knows that he is leaving behind the sense of moral ambiguity that permeated his most acclaimed novels, trading those many delicate, literary shades of gray for a palette of clear-cut black and white. He has taken a stand. "I have a kind of middle-class constituency of fans who don't want me shaking the bars," he says...
...11th century, a Pagan King banned the sacrifice of animals at the rocky crag. He also started constructing temples and monasteries at its summit in an effort to curtail nat worship in order to establish Buddhism's dominance. He had only mixed success. Today, Popa Daung Kalat is one of Burma's major pilgrimage sites; visited by a steady stream of Burmese who turn to the nats to resolve problems in this life, and look to Buddhism for assurances in the next...