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...Beyond digital culture, environmental concerns have helped color the dictionary green. Craggers (members of carbon reduction action groups) now have terms to describe their colleagues in the environmental movement. They probably know more than one ecotarian (a person who only eats food that has been produced in an environmentally friendly manner) and plenty of carborexics (those obsessed with reducing their carbon footprint). (Read "Hangman, Spare That Word: The English Purge Their Language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twitter and Gourmet Sex: They're in the Dictionary Now | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

...hearted as Muna, although thankfully not so naive. Dabis, who worked for several seasons on The L Word, is the first member of her Palestinian/Jordanian family to be born in the United States, and she focuses the story on a better-than-average immigrant experience. Muna arrives with a Green Card, one she applied for years ago and never expected to get. She can work legally, but to her great shame no one will hire her but the local White Castle franchise. There's no sex slavery to escape from or mercenary coyotes chasing her; it's just that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amreeka: A Palestinian Innocent Abroad | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

...green color of the bottle is meant to be reminiscent of Fenway Park, which the inscription on the label references directly...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Absolut Unveils Beantown-Inspired Vodka Flavor | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

...green ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Geneva, Designing a Global Climate-Alert System | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

...loss as he sheepishly attempted to find common ground between the motley collection of candidates during his election wrap-up. On the far right of the podium was a neo-Nazi, joined by a Communist and Social Democrat in the middle, then a probusiness liberal, an environmentalist Green and, not lacking in irony, a conservative Christian Democrat all the way to the left. It was a political free-for-all. With so many smaller parties entering state governments and Germany's federal election just weeks away, the country's main political players now face the possibility that the stable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Parties Gain in German State Votes | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

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