Word: habitability
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...Sister Wendy to tea,” he says in his book-laden study, resting his head on the straight back of a plush armchair and raising his eyebrows above tortoiseshell eyeglass frames. He proudly displays a black-and-white photograph of himself standing with the habit-clad art historian and television personality...
...direction of their target and fired at an optimal angle based on their burn rate. As the Gulf War showed, targeting difficulties made the SCUD an ineffective military weapon, although such imperfections would not diminish its appeal to terrorists. (That said, terrorist groups are not typically in the habit of acquiring such heavy conventional weaponry, because they're difficult to hide and deploying them requires extensive manpower and training...
Still, reformers are finding that it isn't easy for colleges to kick the smoking habit. Throughout the '90s, cigarette marketing was so ubiquitous on campuses that you would have thought Joe Camel had tenure. From 1993 to '99, tobacco use among students increased 28%. Alarmed by the rising rate of student smokers and armed with a Harvard study showing that students living in nonsmoking dorms are less likely to pick up the addiction, college officials turned to antitobacco advocates for help in drafting new policies. The number of state universities with smoke-free dorms has doubled, to 26, over...
...Koreans are harsh on their leaders, expecting them to build Camelots. But in some ways, Kim has himself to blame. Even his supporters say he was better as an opposition leader than as a President. His habit of relying on a small clique of family and friends and a self-confidence border-ing on arrogance helped him survive as a dissident. As President, that trait was a liability. Kim ran an imperial presidency?while he fought for democracy, he never fully understood that its rules applied to him as well...
...mutual masturbation took place—one each.” The same thing happened on one other occasion, he said. Wollf told The Court that his second fling with Smerage was his last. “He was fighting hard and felt that he had overcome the habit,” read the Court records. “Says...