Word: forte
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...hunger. Last December, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that Texas has the second worst hunger problem, with 1 million people going hungry each day, he dismissed it out of hand. "I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry," he told a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "Where? I want to know the facts. I would like for the Department of Agriculture to show us who. Where are they...
...Over the years there have been from time to time artists' centers. Back in the early '70s there was a huge building across from South Station that was filled with artists, and now Fort Point, which is getting dislodged. It's the same old story: artists move into these spaces, and then there's development...
...tell" policy. AOL issued a public apology, but complaints have persisted that AOL holds gay customers to different, stricter standards, both in chat rooms and on personal profiles. "There's a sense," says Cummings, "that they don't want to acknowledge who gives them their money." Last October a Fort Worth, Texas, man's profile was deleted because he mentioned his preferred sexual position. Frank Provasek of the local a.c.l.u. chapter conducted an informal investigation and said gay men's profiles are often removed or modified because of potentially offensive language. A company spokesperson replies, "AOL values...
...roll into work in the mid afternoon and stay into the small of the morning," Dawid says. "You can go in anytime and find probably 20 or 30 people." Editors bring their sleeping bags to the office with the intention of holding the fort until the last word is set down. "There was a guy who came in at nine and left at five. We kind of laughed at that," Dawid recalls...
...ability of Web content to reach niche audiences makes e-publishing especially attractive to authors who don't fit a mold. Leta Nolan Childers of Fort Pierre, S.D., writes novels she calls "comedy romances" that combine the passion of conventional bodice rippers with a dose of silliness. In 1998 she turned to e-imprint DiskUs Publishing, then a tiny operation run by free-lance journalist Marilyn Nesbitt out of her house in Albany, Ind. Childers' submission, The Best Laid Plans, was accepted within weeks and went on sale in January 1999. She became probably the top-selling e-author...