Word: gingered
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...around her, she's so mature that I completely forget and hear myself talking like she's one of my girlfriends," says family friend Maureen Farrington. But in other ways, Hilary is refreshingly juvenile. Her room is an absolute disaster zone, the carpet barely visible among empty ginger-ale cans and discarded Old Navy outfits. She moans about her braces; when she's excited about something, she jumps up and down and tugs on the arm of the nearest adult...
...Despite the marauding elephants and trigger-happy locals, the best way to explore the sights, sounds and smells of coffee country is to take a random stroll. You may spy wild boars or deer?or a villager hurrying to the forest to collect honey and herbs. Cardamom, pepper, ginger and cinnamon grow in abundance, in both cultivated and wild varieties. The coffee bushes blossom in March and April. Even during the busy November harvest season, when guests are invited to join in the berry picking, any visitor will feel a splendid isolation surrounded by the giant rosewood, fig and mahogany...
Viewers of high-level skating competitions understand. They have often wondered whether to believe their own eyes or the judges' contrary numbers. Didn't the judges see one team fall down and another skate perfectly? Then why vote for the stumblers over Fred and Ginger? Are the experts knaves or fools...
...those who lost big in the bear market, it's time to rethink everything, says Ginger Applegarth, president of Applegarth Advisory Group in Winchester, Mass. "If you are retired, it might mean you have to sell the vacation home or go back to work or try to start a business." There are lots of services healthy retirees can offer, such as helping those who aren't so healthy by doing chores or working as a handyman or gardener. "Baby-boomer children would be happy to pay someone to shop for their parents or check on them regularly," she notes. Other...
...other reason for beef eating is, hold on, ethical--a matter of animal rights. The familiar argument for vegetarianism, articulated by Tom Regan, a philosophical founder of the modern animal-rights movement, is that it would save Babe the pig and Chicken Run's Ginger from execution. But what about Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse? asks Steven Davis, professor of animal science at Oregon State University, pointing to the number of field animals inadvertently killed during crop production and harvest. One study showed that simply mowing an alfalfa field caused a 50% reduction in the gray-tailed vole population. Mortality...