Word: plaines
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...desks. They’re small and, in most cases, unimpressive to look at. We see dozens or hundreds like them daily, their owners clicking and clacking away, transcribing lectures or chatting with friends when they should be transcribing lectures. Indeed, much of our interaction with them is plain silly—we read drunken late-night email list traffic and poke friends of friends on the Facebook...
...plan was actually good for the poor. The Bush tax cut, he claimed, would increase the percentage of the nation’s tax burden shouldered by taxpayers from the top 40 percent of income earners. Since so much of what Bush said about his tax plans was just plain fabricated, I and a lot of liberals assumed that this statistic was just another example of “fuzzy math.” But it wasn?...
...secrecy as well as the flaw of gender-determined and gender-dominated leadership. So absorbed are the church leaders in promoting and protecting their agenda that they fail to fulfill their role in the truthful representation of Christ. Etta Albright Cresson, Pennsylvania, U.S. Your article on Opus Dei made plain the dangers of fanaticism and extremism within religious thought. God wants us to hate neither others nor ourselves. The cure for evil must come from God's transformation in us, not from flogging ourselves or vainly trying to impose our ways on others. Ken Broeckel Escondido, California, U.S. time...
...state came in dead last in the 2005 semifinals. Could LT United's entry, which repeats the line, "We are the winners of Eurovision" over and over, be a not-so-subtle attempt at swaying the voting public? There's a fine line between tongue-in-cheek and just plain pathetic. Final odds: 100-1 Switzerland: six4one If We All Give a Little. Céline Dion won the 1988 Eurovision for the Alpine nation, even though she's French-Canadian, starting a trend of Swiss outsourcing. Last year's Swiss representatives Vanilla Ninja were all from Estonia...
Miriam Naples of Plain City, Ohio, warmed a bench for months while her 6- and 11-year-old sons took skateboarding lessons. "I was always looking out of the corner of my eye wishing I were on board," says Naples, 47. She kept wondering whether her sons would be embarrassed. So she asked them. The response: "How cool...