Word: pursuitence
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...have started in England 150 years ago when a Victorian walker left a bottle by Cranmere Pool, Devon, with his calling card in it and an invitation to those who found the bottle to add theirs. It caught on in the U.S. after a 1998 article about the British pursuit appeared in Smithsonian magazine. Since then, more than 9,000 letterboxes have been planted in state parks and nature preserves around the country. Each waterproof box contains a logbook and a rubber stamp. Visitors mark the book with their stamp and use the stamp in the box to document...
...tradition of Jar Jar Binks and Gollum, was created by painting computer graphics over an actor (here, Alan Tudyk). It's a suave simulacrum that makes Sonny the film's most complex and human character - granted, by default - and sets him apart from the killer "can openers" in pursuit of Spooner. There's a nifty car chase, with the cop (in an Audi, its logo prominently displayed) set upon by a vicious android posse. Even if the scene is not up there with the 14-min. freeway free-for-all in the second Matrix movie, it's a smart, vigorous...
...President Lyndon B. Johnson to both honor a select group of students and “symbolically [honor] all graduating high school seniors of high potential,” it historically has served to celebrate outstanding achievement and, more importantly, promote the values associated with the pursuit of noble aspirations...
...report cites the consistent pattern of attacks on and destruction of villages, livelihoods and means of survival, specifically the “hot pursuit with intent to eradicate [non-Arab] villagers...and the consistent pattern of systematic rape of women” as evidence of the desire to achieve a full-scale eradication of non-Arabs living in Darfur...
...optimistic and dangerously na?ve. This perspective is outlined in a new report from the Council on Foreign Relations whose authors include top security officials from the Carter and Reagan administrations. It argues that the regime in Tehran is basically stable. Nor is direct military intervention by the U.S. in pursuit of regime change a plausible option - Iran is three times the size of Iraq, and likely to be as hostile, if not more so to foreign occupation. The U.S. military is already stretched to its limits by its commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan, and an attack on Iran would almost...