Word: planetful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...centuries, cartoons have depicted negative perspectives of religion. Cartoons have violated and attacked every basic Western viewpoint. Why then should other religious icons be spared? Muslims must realize they are living on this planet with many other people for whom free comment and opinion are important. Clearly, the Muslim community needs to cultivate a better sense of humor. Peter Blum Johannesburg...
...Armstrong finally phoned the paper, which posted the story on caller.com at 1:48 p.m., 20 hours after the shooting. It could have taken five minutes to get the story out. A communications official can tell a White House operator from anywhere on the planet, "I need to make a wire call," and within minutes, the operator will call back with wire reporters on the line, ready to flash the news around the world...
...MIGHT NOT WIN: An asteroid might destroy Planet Earth...
...usual argument put forth by global-warming skeptics for why we shouldn't rush to do anything yet is that the science behind climate change is uncertain--and in fact it is. While there's little doubt that humans are helping heat up the planet, the questions of how much, how quickly and leading to what consequences are fiendishly difficult to pin down. That's because the actual climate is still far more complicated than any existing computer model can accurately reflect, making predictions iffy at best. Some natural processes nobody has yet thought of could end up blunting...
They do not always conduct themselves with the air of those deserving sympathy, but spare a thought, please, for those inky-fingered wretches, Britain's political journalists. Living and working in the most competitive media market on the planet, they feverishly search each week for fresh color on the London scene, divine earth-shattering significance from what might seem unimportant trifles, discover and celebrate new big beasts in the political jungle. And when events inconveniently fail to match their predictions, they dust themselves off and go at it again. So it was last week, which started with a widespread assumption...