Word: poring
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Most chess matches of this caliber have been held in grand halls, with hushed audiences watching the players onstage. This time Kasparov and Anand pore over the board in a 3-m by 6-m soundproof booth. There are a few choice, $75 seats in the makeshift King's Room overlooking the booth, but the action is livelier in the cheap folding chairs next door, where chess mavens can follow the match via TV or computer. Helped along by animated commentators Maurice Ashley ("E-5? Funky!") and Danny King, amateurs and grand masters alike try to anticipate each move. When...
Fortunately, Republicans have a few aggressive pork busters in their ranks, most notably Arizona Senator John McCain. While most lawmakers pay little attention to the thousands of line items in appropriations bills, he has assigned a sharp-eyed 29-year-old staff member, Mark Buse, to pore over them and monitor the Senate floor for as long as 13 hours at a stretch. Buse has earned the nickname "the ferret" -- as well as the enmity of Senators annoyed by his zealous impertinence. But Peter Sepp, a spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union, says, "Mark's efforts have been absolutely critical...
Widener Library: 1. Mammoth Library built in memory of a Titanic drowning victim. 2. Where students go to pore over books and sometimes, each other...
...bring a camera. Inevitalbly, it will be buried under piles of unwashed laundry in the bottom of your closet when prime Kodak moments arise, but any photos are fun to pore through later...
...children to play in, as well as a bakery. One of the nation's best-regarded bookstores, Tattered Cover in Denver, bumped its biography and cooking sections off the first floor last November to accommodate a gourmet snack bar where visitors down cannoli and blueberry cheesecake while they pore over the latest hardcovers. Earlier this month owner Joyce Meskis went a step further and opened a swank restaurant on the store's fourth floor, offering specialties like vegetable torta and grilled venison...