Word: grows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these business trips, I would probably never get to see my sister and 12-year-old nephew," McCune says. "This is my twin sister, and we are very close. And it's real important to me that I can go to my nephew's soccer games and watch him grow up, even though he lives so far away...
...would be a pretty thing to think that a gentle, genial spirit like Guido's could effectively resist totalitarianism at its most terrible. But it cannot--unless, of course, you rewrite the past and in the process travesty tragedy. The witnesses to the Holocaust--its living victims--inevitably grow fewer every year. The voices that would deny it ever took place remain strident. The newer generations hurry heedlessly into the future. In this climate, turning even a small corner of this century's central horror into feel-good popular entertainment is abhorrent. Sentimentality is a kind of fascism too, robbing...
Zero proved to be the right price. In the three months since E.C. adopted its Tom Sawyer model (customers will grow your business if you can seduce them into painting fences for you), the number of active palaces has soared from 300 to more than 1,000. And that's not counting the thousands of unregistered sites E.C. isn't yet able to track. Without spending a penny on marketing, says Samuels, he's been able to boost the number of downloaded site-hosting servers to more than 15,000. The number of Palace users, in turn, has jumped from...
...uneasy. Kava, they fear, will turn out to be merely herbal medicine's root du jour, a scientifically unproven preparation that is at best useless and at worst dangerous. But doctors and consumers are two different groups, and even as concerns are raised, kava's popularity continues to grow. "I think kava is really hot," says Dr. Hyla Cass, a UCLA psychiatrist and co-author of Kava: Nature's Answer to Stress, Anxiety, and Insomnia (Prima Health). "It's a sleeper...
...There is definitely the right look for playing the part of Santa Lucia," she said. "It is definitely a blonde, Scandinavian thing. I even need to grow my hair out long because Santa Lucia is always thought of as having longer hair...