Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little frightening that human beings are still so fond of black-and-white pictures, the binary digits 0 and 1 or the good guy and the bad guy. What technology achieved with fuzzy logic several years ago still seems to be the exception for human judgment. The Swiss are the same human beings as the Germans, the French or the Americans. They are not angels, but they are not devils either. Maybe everyone should start to think in shades of gray. STEPHAN LOEB Binningen, Switzerland...
...especially fond of the organisms that live inside undersea tube worms, existing on sulphur filtering out of deep-sea thermal vents...
...have been the first time that the surgical mask MICHAEL JACKSON is fond of wearing did not look out of place. His wife of three months, DEBBIE ROWE JACKSON, gave birth to their first child, a son, early on Feb. 13. No weight or name has been announced. Labor was apparently induced at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and--presto!--dozens of fans, paparazzi and security guards materialized. "Words can't describe how I feel," said Jackson in a statement. "I have been blessed beyond comprehension, and I will work tirelessly at being the best father I can be." He pleaded...
...ritual is an integral part of Marine bonding. But even some men who have been pinned warn that the tapes depict a form of hazing far more vicious than the customary single punch. Bernard Trainor, a retired Marine lieutenant general who lectures on national security at Harvard, has fond memories of the day he received his punch 32 years ago in Vietnam. "I never questioned it," he says. "It was part of the rite of passage." The senior jumper in his unit made a little speech, then handed out the wings. "I was the first guy in line...
...admits this fundamental inability to the reader: "I accumulated floods of cards and stories so as to be able to fill in all the blank spaces of what, later on, was going to be my novel. But I left them where they were, leaving the story, because I am fond of unexplained blank spaces." Instead of chasing the impossible, Martinez writes about the magic and mystery associated with Evita with impressive skill and completeness...