Word: riting
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There is something seductive about numbers with zeros in them. Milestones in wealth or accomplishment, they whisper, "Come, you can do it." One hundred is a special number for bicycle riders. Cycling 100 miles--or even 100 km--in a single day is a rite of passage cyclists call a century ride. It is for a bicyclist what a marathon is for a runner: a badge of endurance and achievement...
Every adult remembers where he was when he learned that Bambi's mom had been shot by a lone gunman. For many of us, it was an emotional rite of passage. We clutched a grownup's hand in the darkened theater. But imagine watching Bambi or Beauty and the Beast on video, not as a seven-year-old but at four, and without a parent present to explain the law of the cartoon jungle. Kids ages two to five spend an average of 1 1/2 hours watching videos each day, yet children up to age five need adult help...
...medieval Christian rite transformed for today's secular Harvard, the service aims for interfaith inclusion...
...Lipman '00, winner of the Stride Rite Charitable Foundation public service fellowship, said that because many students have been involved with community service, they feel they already contribute to charities more directly...
...march spread and moms from around the country called in, Dees-Thomases used her talent for generating publicity--she once worked as a press aide to a U.S. Senator and later as a publicist for Dan Rather and David Letterman--to gather corporate sponsors such as Viacom, Stride Rite and Oxygen Media to cover the $2.3 million budget for the march. The Bell Campaign, a gun-control group funded by heirs to the Levi's blue-jean fortune, is picking up any shortfall. Dees-Thomases now has a small paid staff and a battalion of volunteers who answer 75 phones...