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Percy Jackson is no Harry Potter. He's American, dyslexic, and his best friend is half goat. On the other hand, he has unusual parents, he's supposed to decide the fate of the world, and there is a series of best-selling books based on his teen years. With the Feb. 12 release of the movie Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, he has a chance to notch up another similarity. Can Jackson conjure up anything close to Potterphilia...
...born politician - or a dictator, whose ego is rarely clouded by the saving grace of self-doubt. For any man on a God-ordained mission, whether he's a Muslim or a breakaway Mormon, the end justifies the means, however shabby. Earlier this season, he pressured Don, his friend and business partner in the Home Plus stores, to "take the bullet" by outing himself as a polygamist, allowing an unsullied Bill to proceed with his campaign. Friends' lives ruined, his son ostracized: it must all be part of the divine plan. That kind of faith means never having...
...treat a fracture like this has changed quite radically in the course of my career. We hardly ever operated on them when I started in the late '80s; now we operate on them all the time. Mine was now the job of explaining wrist fractures to my very intelligent friend Peter, a Ph.D. in biochemistry, who despite all his smarts, had one big question on his mind: does my wife really need an operation? (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...closed treatment is easy to challenge. I explained this to Peter - and also let him know that he actually lives down the block from a professor who made his career studying, and mostly operating on, these wrist fractures. But I had to give Peter what he expected from a friend "in the business": the inside skinny. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...toughest places for the volunteers to operate, it seems, is the curling venue. "I find that there's a lot of drunk people at curling," says Sue Andrykew, a mail carrier from Windsor, Ont., who took a month off to volunteer and is crashing on a friend's futon. A few days ago, a woman screamed at Andrykew, demanding that she move some people who were blocking her view of the sheet. As if that's not bad enough, too many smokers are lighting up in nonsmoking areas...