Word: doorstep
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...arrived like a baby on my office doorstep, weighing several pounds and wrapped in a white, fuzzy swaddle. Underneath the cloth was a photocopied advance of Craig Thompson's mammoth, 592-page "illustrated novel," "Blankets" (Top Shelf Productions; $29.95). Like a needy infant it demanded immediate attention, compelling me to read it right away until finished. It consumed my afternoon, but I felt this book was indeed gifted and destined for a great future...
...Best of all is the town?s juxtaposition with the Noosa National Park. The park has been saved by decades of fierce environmental activism, and it?s right on your doorstep if you?re staying on Hastings Street?Noosa?s main drag and location of its best accommodations. From an apartment here, it?s a short stroll into the park, where walking trails lead through thick forest and koalas, goannas and other wildlife abound. You might encounter the local fauna downtown, too. While happily devouring an ice cream on Hastings Street one afternoon, I looked up and saw an Australian...
Bliss it is not to be young in Hong Kong. Unemployment is at a record high, there are deadly epidemics at your doorstep, and worst of all, there's the nagging sense that everything was better before. In another country, that could be a potent formula for some gritty, nihilistic youth culture. In Hong Kong you get the Twins...
...like a little baby left at a doorstep, needing a woman to take care of me. Maybe I'll just have to date for the rest of my life. Or maybe the love of my life is yet to come." TED TURNER on his attempt to find a new life now that he lost billions of dollars' worth of AOL Time Warner stock and stepped down as vice chairman of the company...
...doorstep of her new home, 10 Downing Street, the new leader cited the compassionate litany of St. Francis of Assisi: "Where there is discord, let there be harmony." It would be the last conciliatory message from this aggressive, even strident, Prime Minister, who boasted, "I am not a consensus politician, I am a conviction politician!" Her conservative creed transformed Britain: she broke the unions' stranglehold, flogged the business world out of complacency, altered the welfare-state mentality and boldly fought a war over the Falkland Islands, some 8,000 miles away. And she did it all her way. --By Bonnie...