Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that Oxford is a curious place is surely a cliche. But the fact that this hodge-podge of idle proriety and flustered cluelessness commands loyalty so effortlessly amoung its students is quite another oddity. By the myth ofits name and the sublimity of its architecture alone, Oxford fuels a crippling English--and anglophile--desire to be part of a great history...
Sociology repeats geography. The Great Basin does not just trap precipitation; it is also a sinkhole for curious ideas. In the Salt Wells brothel outside Fallon, a group of buzz-cut Navy buddies are swigging tequila around a blazing fireplace. They narrate the day's maneuvers with swooping hand gestures while a giggling, shirtless young prostitute looks on. She seems unimpressed by the flyboys' classified briefing. At the bar, a middle-aged cowboy quietly raves about a plot to swamp Nevada in methamphetamine ("crank"). The cowboy doesn't want his name used (few people do out here), but he does...
...five years the CIA had been carefully tracking the flow of Chinese M-11 missile components into Pakistan. Then at the end of 1995 came a stunning discovery. Agency satellites spotted a curious-looking facility under construction near the northern Pakistani town of Rawalpindi, just 10 miles from the capital of Islamabad. It had long, narrow buildings with doorways large enough to roll out a rocket the size of the 30-ft. M-11, as well as a test stand nearby, where the solid-fuel engine could be mounted and fired up. The agency concluded that not only was China...
...Most bookstores have carved our a niche of their own," Sudholz said. "And stores like Wordsworth have shown their resilience through efforts like the Curious George annex...
...easy, of course, to imagine a wonderful future when all you've known is tranquillity. But this peaceful outlook has brought with it a mouthful of unanswerably hard questions. Is an innocence of war a blessing or curse? Will our naivete make us dangerously curious about the tools of violent power? Or is this the start of a thousand years of peace, secured by a certainty that what we have now is forever worth having...