Word: moons
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...fortune north of $15 billion and has remained active in the tech world, investing in a series of start-ups, from AOL to early wireless networks. He scored big with such outfits as DreamWorks and Ticketmaster, while some of his other investments have struggled, like Egghead Software and Purple Moon, a failed CD-ROM venture...
...good pay, affordable health insurance for themselves and their families, quality education for their children, economic security in old age. We can achieve all of this. In our country's past, we rose to greater challenges: we ended slavery, won World Wars, eradicated polio, put men on the moon. The New American Story is telling us that we can, once again, make great things happen...
...Friday's bombing came a day after a rocket exploded 50 yards from the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during a news conference in the Green Zone, causing him to cringe and duck just minutes after Prime Minister al-Maliki had said Ban's visit showed that the city was "on the road to stability." For those Iraqis were starting to breath easier in the capital and take advantage of the spring weather, the blast was another reminder of how far the U.S and Iraqi governments still have to go in implementing their ambitious five-week old security plan...
...Dalby is clearly an expert forager, with a love for digging at the roots of things, be they customs or words. She tells us that it was a German moon goddess, Eostre, who gave her name to both Easter and to the female hormone estrogen, and she explains that in old China, a hawk and a dove were considered to be the same bird, seen in a different light. She retells the poignant story of the compiler of the 16,000-page Great Chinese-Japanese Classical Dictionary, who saw the proofs of 12 of his 13 volumes reduced...
...Academy Awards? Before they spoke, the screen at the back of the stage flashed not-so-subliminal messages about how to save the planet. My personal favorite was "Ride mass transit." This to a conclave of Hollywood plutocrats who have not seen the inside of a subway since the moon landing and for whom mass transit means a stretch limo seating no fewer than...