Word: distantly
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...sugar and cinnamon, though; there is bitterness as well. Voices tell of unbearable marriages and emotionally distant relatives. There is the occasional stab of tragedy: a small child dies from eating poisonous berries. There are recipes. And there are surprises: a cowboy recalls his first pair of chaps, which were fashioned from his grandfather's horseshoeing apron...
...N.R.A.--who find that taking the most extreme positions is the most efficacious way to solicit money, and also by the corruption of journalism by partisan blowhards like Moore and Limbaugh. And he has a point. In a world where Islamist terrorism and globalization-induced economic anxiety were distant clouds, single-issue fanatics had a clear field to pollute the public square. Scream journalism--Crossfire, Hannity and Colmes, the various "gangs" and "groups" of Washington blabocrats assaulting our senses--was always nauseating, but it was more understandable in a world where the most important issue was the definition...
...point, thought the hysteria had gone too far. And when I enter the empty Wagner living room, loudspeakers blare the ride of the Valkyries, from the only Wagner opera I have experienced live. But in the pension, sappy German love songs make me feel that Wagner is ever distant; I did not find him in Bayreuth. I chat with the pension owner about local cuisine and head...
...watchful is sensible, but the lack of focus on cultural nuances and sensitivities is a big mistake. The truckers' parochial and prejudiced behavior?like calling Indian Sikhs "Islamics"?reflects this ignorance. Not every Muslim is fanatic, and not every turban-wearing guy is Osama bin Laden's distant cousin. Muslims from different countries embrace very different ideals. I am sure the Department of Homeland Security can do a better job of providing cultural-sensitivity training. Faisal Siddiqui Bombay...
Mercury ain't for sissies. Say what you will about the difficulty of sending a spacecraft to a distant place like Saturn, it's Mercury, the first rock from the sun--with its crush of solar gravity and its inferno of solar heat--that presents the greatest challenges. NASA has dared go to Mercury only once before, 30 years ago, when Mariner 10 made three flybys. Now NASA is set to try again, with a spacecraft called MESSENGER, which is scheduled to take off as early as this week on a mission to become the first probe to orbit...