Word: polarity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...build would cost $1,000, speed-wrote I, the Jury. The hardback version, published by E.P. Dutton, sold OK, nothing special, about 20,000 copies. But when issued in paperback in late 1948, the book stoked a furor. (The year's other literary sensation that year was Spillane's polar opposite, the lounge kitten Truman Capote...
...zoos at all. They're too curious and exploratory to be satisfied by an artificial environment. But it's not clear what you do with a bear that's already in captivity. Animal-rights activists have long complained about the highly ritualized, seemingly neurotic behavior of Gus, the polar bear in New York City's Central Park Zoo. "Though Gus is perfectly healthy, people tell us to send him back," says Alison Powers, communications director of the Wildlife Conservation Society, Central Park's parent institution. "But Gus wasn't ripped out of the Arctic. He came from Ohio. He wouldn...
...reducing carbon dioxide, which may be a good idea, but shouldn't we also be thinking about how we can adapt to environmental change, as all species have had to do since the beginning of time? Charles W. Meyer Fremont, California, U.S. time's cover photo of a polar bear among shrinking ice floes broke my heart. Thanks for perfectly capturing a simple, real-life symptom of a complicated problem. We humans have to take responsibility for how our lifestyle affects the innocents around us. I know I'm motivated to do better. Matthew M. Cooper Eugene, Oregon...
TIME'S cover photo of a polar bear among shrinking ice floes broke my heart. Thanks for perfectly capturing a simple, real-life symptom of a complicated problem. We humans have to take responsibility for how our lifestyle affects the innocents around us. I know I'm motivated to do better...
...fascinated by their psychologizing, the sort that usually characterizes soap-opera-fan chat rooms and sports blogs: "I know what I read in the papers, but what are they really like?" Actually, the personality differences between Democrats and Republicans are minimal, even if their opinions are sometimes polar opposites. They are all subspecies of "nerd." If pressed, I can only mumble about who seems to smoke more (Republicans) and who gives more tepid parties (Democrats). Of course, these are differences of style, not substance...