Word: orr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another keynote speaker, David Orr, who chairs the Environmental Studies program at Oberlin, drew laughter and applause when he snuck into his slide-show a political cartoon of Vice President Cheney strumming a banjo against the backdrop of oil rigs, singing “this land is oiled land, this land is mined land...
...Orr accused the Bush administration of muddled thinking and pandering to polluting corporations, despite growing public support for sound environmental policy...
...Orr said as he mockingly followed a graph that demonstrated the correlation between energy consumption and global warming with a quote from President Bush that read “we need an energy bill that increases consumption...
...Several of my gay friends were being harassed…and I feel it’s just horrendous,” said Orr, who added that some of her gay friends have not had problems...
...Andrea Orr's Meeting, Mating and Cheating (Reuters; 181 pages) offers some interesting history. As early as the 1960s, mainframe computers were used to match people up based on their looks and interests. The book also helps explain why most messages you send will probably never get a reply: on most sites, fewer than 10% of the posted profiles belong to paying members. The rest belong to trial users who may not be able to reply until they commit to a monthly fee. Orr's dry writing style won't sweep you off your feet, but Meeting, Mating and Cheating...