Word: intrepidly
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...Police received a report from a Carlisle St. resident that her green 2000 Dodge Intrepid was stolen...
...first time I met Norman Lewis, the great intrepid traveler of our times was rubbing his hands together. He was already well into his 80s, but he was about to depart for a part of Irian Jaya where the last Western visitors-missionaries-had, he said, been eaten. "I can't wait to go and hear more about that great evangelical feast," he said, mixing, as he often did, drollness with real spirit...
...scientific and social pioneer, Franklin was no less intrepid than the explorers. "Every generation should look anew at Franklin," says Walter Isaacson, my predecessor as managing editor of TIME and the author of a splendid new biography, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. "He speaks to us in a contemporary way, and we can learn a lot about our own values by the way we see them reflected in Franklin." In an adaptation from his book, Walter explores Franklin's seven revolutionary ideals in a way that offers remarkable resonance with today's headlines...
...heart of the book, dominating every page, is the narrator, MM, an intrepid Indian investigative journalist. Like his creator, MM catches top government officials deep in criminal doo-doo, dealing in drugs and arms, but the autobiography presumably ends there. Bahal pushes the concept of the antihero to the limit. MM has a voracious appetite for heavy drugs and unusual sex. The story begins with him embedded in a paratrooper brigade in the Indian army, where he figures out how to inject heroin in free fall. From that point on, he and other characters overindulge in every imaginable recreational drug...
...intrepid companies like Chinaveg are doing with farming what's already been done in manufacturing: leveraging China's cheap labor and growing domestic market to build a low-cost export operation. The best potential profits lie outside China, especially in Japan, which imports more than $3 billion in agricultural products annually, and in South Korea, which will ease its import restrictions in 2004. China already ranks as Japan's No. 1 source of imported fresh vegetables (the U.S. ranks second) and is No. 2 in processed fruits and vegetables (after...