Word: louders
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...atmosphere at the electronic entertainment Expo (E3) was muted this year--literally. Organizers at the hottest convention in the hard-core video gamer's calendar set noise limits and put decibel meters on its vendors, whose celeb-studded shows and my-game's-louder-than-yours posturing have split a few eardrums in years past...
...Frazier is--thwack!--training a boxer on the heavy bag at his North Philadelphia gym. "Don't reach," Frazier admonishes. Louder thwacks. Suddenly the former heavyweight champion stops, squints his eyes, then gently wipes the boxer's runny nose with his gloved hand. "What?" the younger athlete says, momentarily self-conscious. "Do I have snot there...
...have we responded to four decades of ever louder distress signals? We've staged a procession of Earth Days, formed Green parties, passed environmental laws, forged a few international treaties and organized global gabfests and photo ops like the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. All the while, the decline of Earth's ecosystems has continued unabated...
...there is something different about McCain's student supporters. Their cheeks are rosier, their cheering louder, their rowdiness rowdier. And it's not obvious why this is so. Gore and Bradley promise the most money for higher education, Bush is the youngest and (arguably) most charming, and Alan Keyes is, well, Alan Keyes. McCain, meanwhile, is a stodgy veteran who, like Grandpa at the fireplace, never stops talking about "when I was your age?...
...louder than junior winger Chris Bala's uncle, Jam. Before each match this past weekend, the good man met the team at the rink and fired it up with some crazed cheers that punctuated the usual pregame...