Word: haring
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...that nonchalance vanished in a heartbeat last week when 2-year-old Shaiunna Hare was strangled to death in her crib by a 9-ft. Burmese python kept as a pet, illegally, in her house near Orlando. (The owner, a live-in boyfriend of Shaiunna's mother, killed the python with a knife as it squeezed the girl, but it was too late.) Suddenly Floridians, and the rest of the country, are paying more sober attention to the warnings of wildlife officials and environmentalists that proliferating pythons are a threat to critical ecosystems like the Everglades as well...
...dropped out of high school and his mother did not finish college. Though his father lacked formal education, Greene said, he was very intellectual and was “captivated by ideas.” Greene’s older brother left the University of Wisconsin to follow the Hare Krishna movement. Despite their different paths, Greene said his brother’s interests are very similar to his own.“We both ask the big questions, but he looks at it from a very different point of view.”HOME AT HARVARDThough Greene originally chose...
...Though allegations that Scientology bleeds members dry is neither new nor limited to France, some outside observers may agree with Gounord's claims of French intolerance toward religion. France's 1996 list of dangerous cults, for example, contains 172 groups, including Jehovah's Witnesses, Hare Krishnas, the Worldwide Church of God, the Unification Church and even transcendental meditationists - all of whom have largely shed their cult status...
Still, why are these insecure new consumers paying so much for their props? A closer look at the yogi demographics, however, offers clues into purchasing behavior. Yoga practitioners no longer fit the stereotype of weird women chanting the Hare Krishna mantra. They're young: 40.6% of those who do yoga are between 18 and 34, according to a 2008 Harris Interactive poll commissioned by Yoga Journal. They're smart: 71.4% are college graduates, and 27% have postgraduate degrees. And they're affluent: 44% of yogis have household incomes of $75,000 or more (that figure, of course, might be trickling...
Even in his own country, Ayckbourn has never gotten the critical respect accorded contemporaries such as Tom Stoppard and David Hare. They write "important" plays about political issues or nuclear physics or Russian intellectuals. Ayckbourn's realm is more familiar: the domestic and romantic trials of modern middle-class Brits. Yet no one has probed more acutely, or with a finer balance of laughter and pain, the sad human comedy behind these tidy surfaces - the inability of people to connect, to see the casual cruelty they inflict on others, to come to terms with their failed illusions, to be happy...