Word: enthusiast
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Canning isn't for grandmas anymore. Take Steve Doherty, a heavily tattooed and pierced New York City bartender. He's an unlikely enthusiast, but he's been pickling and preserving in his tiny kitchen in Brooklyn for the past two years...
...told me as we stood outside the Supreme Court building on the morning of June 26, waiting for the decision in a landmark Second Amendment case. Heller, who wore a Supreme Court tie and a blue baseball cap with a miniature silver pistol on it, looked like just another enthusiast as he handed out newsletters. But as he lectured me and my friends on the history of the case, we responded with rapt attention rather than casual interest. Heller, a security guard from Washington D.C., was the eponymous plaintiff in the case, District of Columbia v. Heller...
...former Mayor of Indianapolis Bart Peterson’s Institute of Politics (IOP) study group. The topic of discussion, according to the IOP’s website, was “The Politics of Being an NFL City.” But for the Ivy League sports enthusiast, Polian offered information on Harvard football’s latest NFL entrant, Clifton Dawson...
...believes Obama can win 54% in the fall and that margin has the power to change the dialogue, the way things are being done in Washington and boost the state party. "It's gonna take that kind of election to make the changes," he says. But even an Obama enthusiast like Elfant shares one concern that many have raised: that the candidate, he says, "is untested... that is a little bit of a risk." It is that little thread on Obama's sweater that Clinton is hoping to pull on as she fights in Texas for her political future...
...last long. Back at Celera, the competing interests of a free public database and a corporation's stockholders proved hard to reconcile, and just two years after the White House ceremony, Venter was fired by the board. For solace, he decided to get away. Still a sailing enthusiast, he hit on a grand plan to mimic the journey of the H.M.S. Challenger, the vessel that in the 1870s conducted the first global mission to sample life from the oceans of the world. Venter would circumnavigate the globe with a crew of scientists and sailors and every 200 miles...