Word: notionalism
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...himself, who could come out foursquare for a healthy balanced diet and his supporters would find it deliriously rebellious. By recent Dean standards, the Larkspur assemblage - several hundred people - was meager. He's been greeted by 3,000 in Austin, Texas, and 1,000 in Seattle. But the very notion of unaffiliated civilians gathering to hear a candidate is increasingly rare in American politics, and the former Governor of Vermont has emerged as the one Democrat who can draw a crowd...
...committee. Its task: to advise the IWC on potential threats to marine mammals from pollution, sonar gear, ships, global warming - even whale watching itself. Environmentalists see it as a landmark step. "They're moving out of the old mindset - that everything has to be killed - into the more embracing notion that the earth is getting smaller and smaller and we have to treat all our resources with more care," says Patricia Forkan, executive vice president of the Humane Society International. But the so-called Berlin Initiative infuriates as many as it pleases. Pro-whaling nations, led by Japan, Iceland...
...sponsored by 12 anti-whaling European countries, plus Kenya, Brazil, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Its architect, Andrés Rozental, a former Deputy Foreign Minister and ex-ambassador to the U.K., had mobilized support from "like- minded" countries - and signing up southern hemisphere nations was crucial. "The notion that comes from Japan, that it's just the rich north that wants to protect whales and dolphins, is nonsense," says Richard Page, oceans campaigner for Greenpeace. "Developing countries have been taking a hard look at the situation and are realizing the importance of protecting these resources." Will the committee...
Cars, gross-out jokes, T. and A.--not the most elevated definition of manhood, but Hecht says it's all delivered with a wink. "[Men] know we're buffoons," he says. "We know that we can be made fun of." This notion is of a piece with the have-your-cheesecake-and-eat-it-too approach of men's TV from The Man Show to Coors' "Twins" beer commercials: we'll ironically acknowledge that we're drooling idiots in exchange for getting to look at boobies. But TV marketing coups don't necessarily appeal to viewers' better angels. The women...
...Samarn Wae-kaji, believed by police to be an expert bomb builder who honed his skills under Arifin, who is a graduate of a terror training camp in the Philippines. "Don't worry, we'll catch him," says Major General Chumpon Manmai, Thailand's special branch police commissioner. The notion that there are terrorists in Thailand for him to catch is not so ridiculous anymore...