Word: intrepidness
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...held the final presentation, on the flight deck of the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier, docked on Manhattan's west side, under a tent big enough to house several fields for a sport that requires a lot of space. Maybe there was a "Boot Camp" connection, but I was just creeped out, not least by the black-shirted Fox staff poised military-style around the perimeter of the room, trying to artificially induce whooping throughout the presentation...
...first photograph shows a tiny girl with a blank, almost intrepid stare ripe with meaning and emotion. The subsequent portraits show Almerisa slowly shedding both the exterior trappings of her homeland and of childhood. In the last photograph, she is coyishly defiant, slouching slightly on the chair with her legs apart and a very knowing expression on her face. She no longer looks the part of a refugee, and she is no longer a child...
...Malacca, Macau and Goa. The white men who came in search of souls and spices left a generation of mixed-race offspring that, at the high point of empire building, was more than one-million strong. Today, in Malaysia's Strait of Malacca, 1,000 Eurasian fishermen, descendants of intrepid Portuguese traders, still speak an archaic dialect of Portuguese, practice the Catholic faith and carry surnames like De Silva and Da Costa. In Macau, 10,000 mixed-race Macanese serve as the backbone of the former colony's civil service and are known for their spicy fusion cuisine...
...intrepid pre-frosh who have stayed beyond this beautiful weekend: Congratulations...
...looks decidedly like the past. Judge Marilyn Hall Patel has ruled that Napster must prevent its users from trading in copyrighted material. Last week, the record labels delivered to Napster a list of hundreds of thousands of copyrighted songs, files which Napster now filters to prevent users from trading. Intrepid users are now resorting to misspellings and Pig Latin to avoid the filters, but it's doubtful that the majority of users will ever find Napster as convenient as it once...