Word: mild
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...White's sonorous mythologizing was overdone, the making of the president 2000 seems ridiculously underdone - the election campaign at times little more than a curiosity, an irritation yammering toward a foregone conclusion. Even the summer's mild suspense (it's a toss-up, we said) is draining out of this one. The race began by raising two fundamental questions: How strange is Gore? How dumb is Bush? There are real policy differences, of course, but personality trumps those. The answer is emerging - the sum of Al's weirdness works out to be less than the sum of W.'s dumbness...
...Ralf Schumann. A mild-tempered and obviously sharp-eyed man of 38, he was born in the former East Germany, where he took up pistol shooting at age 15. The pistol has since become an extension of his right arm, and rapid-fire shooting at 25 m his life. He fires 20,000 shots a year--all in training for a competition that lasts no longer than...
SCRATCH AND SNIFF Don't hold your breath, but you may someday be able to take a smell test for Alzheimer's. Patients with mild memory problems were asked to scratch and sniff odor-infused patches and then identify the scent. During a two-year follow-up, none of those who could accurately distinguish peanut from pizza, for example, went on to develop Alzheimer's. But nearly half who scored poorly--and, interestingly, didn't realize they had an impaired sense of smell--did develop the disease. Apparently the olfactory pathway, and probably the area in the brain responsible...
...talk to people, and I'm going to do a lot of it," Bush told workers in a Pennsylvania factory Thursday, unveiling a new campaign slogan ("Real plans for real people") and some new campaign plans. This thinking out loud - occasioned, no doubt, by some signs of mild panic in Republican ranks over the fact that Al Gore appears to have not only reeled in the Texas governor's lead, but even to have overtaken him in the polls since before Labor Day - is even worse when he's talking to journalists. "I'd like to be able...
...combination of a mild winter, a broiling summer and outbreaks of dry thunderstorms that have produced much lightning but little rain has plagued Montana and neighboring states with fires of a ferocity not seen for half a century. From the central mountains to the western valleys, more than 50 homes have burned as well as 300,000 acres (and counting) of kindling-dry timber. Besides forcing thousands to evacuate, the flames brought down power lines and melted cars and trucks. Last week 6 million acres of public land were closed to civilians by order of the Governor, and each...