Word: kind
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...more clearly than in environmentalist literature and eco-criticism. It wasn't narcissism but selflessness--in the most authentic sense of the term, the vanishing of the self--that led Thoreau to tell us about his life in the woods: it was his conviction that individual choices possess some kind of cosmic exemplary significance. Walden is a sort of spiritual biography of man in Nature, told through Thoreau's experience in the woods. The notion is that experience is transcendent of the personal, and indexes the general...
...think the general public often thinks that scientists are kind of stuffy and don't have any fun, so any occasion where scientists are just silly is delightful--cause in fact we do have fun," Koehl said...
...first it seemed like an unreal kind of world...[but] I began to see how important it was," Dunn says. "I was in a place that was pretty much run by women and for women...
...kind of unity existent among the freshmen is the kind Harvard will need from its entire team to carry it to success this weekend...
...always had to jump through hoops to get a welfare check. Now in Michigan, you also have to pee in a cup. On Friday, four counties began mandatory drug testing for all new welfare recipients. The new tests, which are the first of their kind in the country, will be administered to everyone who comes in to collect their first public assistance check; random tests will also be given to current welfare recipients. Those who test positive will be required to get treatment, and those who refuse to take the test will be cut off welfare within four months. Opponents...