Word: richer
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...sexism at this school," she said."Discrimination in its present form is oftensubtle and covert--but [still] damaging. I know[HMS] has prepared me incredibly well for acareer. Yet, had I had the same opportunities, thesame experiences, as those around me, I know myexperience would have been even richer...
...many traditional Chilean winemakers, the Hartwig family, which runs the winery, disdains exaggerated harvests that compromise grape quality and makes earnest use of stainless-steel vat technology. The Hartwigs also take more care than is usual in Chile to master their terroir--making soil, climate and grape work in richer harmony. Similar attention is being paid in other newer wineries like MontGras, Carmen and Veramonte, which is bottling Chile's hot new grape, a Merlot cousin called Camenere...
Though Breath, Eyes, Memory caught Oprah's eye, Danticat's The Farming of Bones is a richer, more resonant work. There is magic and loss on nearly every page. At one point in the novel, a man who has been struck by a machete and left for dead in a pile of corpses tells his story. "'I felt like my woman on our first night together,' he said. 'She woke up in the middle of the night and started screaming...this was her first night outside her mother's bed and she'd plain forgotten where she was... Waking...
David Kaczynski is a million dollars richer, but he probably doesn't feel like a rich man. The money is the reward for turning in the Unabomber -- his older brother Ted -- who spent 17 years victimizing total strangers through a series of seemingly random bombs sent through the U.S. postal system. David plans to give the government-funded reward to the victims? families. The attacks started in 1978 and ended with Ted's capture in 1996, but not before three people were killed and 29 injured. "There's no question the money could never compensate for the loss...
...gods, we are cautious. We send the animals before us. The Soviets launched a dog called Laika on a Sputnik 2 space vehicle in 1957; in 1961 the Americans fired up a chimpanzee named Ham in a Mercury capsule. Presumably Ham, with his evolutionary advantage, had a richer experience in space than the astronaut dog. When America at last committed a human life to the venture, Shepard advanced the space program by an evolutionary quantum leap. He lived to become more famous still by playing golf on the moon during his Apollo 14 expedition...