Word: dreaming
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...made public. Yet that was because Tower, like Gary Hart and Dan Quayle before him, was in line for a position in which discretion is imperative; the Secretary of Defense's self-control is a matter of national welfare. All that is at stake in the Boggs case is dreams. We do not care whether our car mechanic, say, is a philanderer, so long as he does the job that he is paid to do; so too with our athletes. We pay our baseball players to entertain us, to inspire us with feats of self-transcendence, to do the things...
...mammoth historical progress report on a language with a vocabulary, the world's largest, that grows by an estimated 450 words a year. The second edition, in 20 volumes, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II, will be officially unveiled at celebrations in London next week. It is a statistician's dream. It contains 21,728 pages and defines 616,500 words and terms, using nearly 60 million words (34% more than the first OED) to do so; it also costs...
...College athletics is about giving a team an opportunity to dream a little bit," Roby said. "We were all hoping that our league would be well represented. Princeton did a great job. They showed how good our league is and then some...
Fish's decision may have been easier since his squash teams have accomplished everything that other coaches can only dream about. His next challenge: reestablish the tennis team as an eastern powerhouse...
...conquer diseases, improve upon his natural abilities and perhaps even control his own destiny. But just because miracles might someday be possible does not necessarily mean that they should all be performed. The tools of molecular biology have enormous potential for both good and evil. Lurking behind every genetic dream come true is a possible Brave New World nightmare. After all, it is the DNA of human beings that might be tampered with, not some string bean or laboratory mouse. To unlock the secrets hidden in the chromosomes of human cells is to open up a host of thorny legal...