Word: intrepidly
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Russians smoke some 3 billion cigarettes each year. According to the official stats, 77% of men smoke. The chairman of the Duma health committee, one intrepid NIKOLAI GERASIMENKO, has launched a crusade to save his comrades' lungs. Gerasimenko, a surgeon from the Altai region in western Siberia, chain-smoked for three decades before converting, as he says, to "an oxygen-enhanced life." The bill passed a first reading by a 297-to-43 vote. It still has to pass two more readings and then the upper house before going to BORIS YELTSIN to be signed into...
...intrepid, a two-hour ride on Amtrak from the South station brings you to Mystic, Conn. ($50 round trip), home of Mystic Seaport. The Seaport is an outdoor maritime museum, home to the last whaling ship in existence, the Morgan...
...intrepid, a two-hour ride on Amtrakfrom the South station brings you to Mystic, Conn.($50 round trip), home of Mystic Seaport. TheSeaport is an outdoor maritime museum, home to thelast whaling ship in existence, the Morgan...
...surviving Pankhurst women formed an intrepid, determined, powerfully gifted band. In 1903 they founded the Women's Social and Political Union. It was, Emmeline Pankhurst wrote later, "simply a suffrage army in the field." The charismatic, dictatorial eldest daughter Christabel emerged in her teens as the W.S.P.U.'s strategist and an indomitable activist, with nerves of tungsten. Mrs. Pankhurst's second daughter Sylvia, the artist, pioneered the corporate logo: as designer and scene painter of the W.S.P.U., she created banners, costumes and badges in the suffragist livery of white, purple and green. Though the family split later over policy, their...
...angled plate glass walls admit sprinkles of sunshine. An intoxicating smell of worldly foliage floats about the sultry environment and various coins from around the world glisten from the bottom of an 18- inch-deep pond, inviting all to make a wish in this majestic structure. For the intrepid, geometrically arranged stones provide an entertaining romp. Just be careful not to fall in---the inhabitants of this imported Japanese fish pond have been known to attach themselves to the toes and fingers of intruders. Just over the River, these Coy fish slither in and out of the stone caverns designed...