Word: robins
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...Liberals may disagree. They may argue that the needs of the poor trump individual liberty, that governments and student groups can play Robin Hood without violating property rights, that conservatives are worried about nothing. I am open to the possibility that, someday, they just might persuade me. But they will never win me over so long as they keep trying to steal the moral high ground by scaring people with the myth of the heartless conservative. So let’s wipe the slate clean and start over with a commitment to be honest about each other?...
...Holdings Public company based in Cambridge, England CEO: Robin Saxby What it does: Licenses its high-performance RISC microprocessors and system-on-chip designs for applications in consumer goods as well as encryption and industrial technology Why it is hot: The firm controls an estimated 80% of the global market for chips for mobile handsets www.arm.com | last year...
...treatment of a short story by Brian Aldiss, Super-Toys Last All Summer Long. In addition to starring America's favorite child actor Osment, this film will also star Jude Law as Gigolo Joe, Jake Thomas as Martin Swinton, William Hurt, France O'Connor, and Sam Robards. Narrated by Robin Williams, this modern tale of Pinnochio...
...wind-tunnel that was the Charles Basin. Particularly when conditions are erratic, the work of the crew becomes essential for success. Kikuchi, Bonney, and Yu took nature’s challenge in full stride and guided Harvard with grace through yesterday’s six-team round robin...
What about those inviting vacant lots? "There's practically no such thing anymore," laments urban planner Robin Moore, a former president of the International Association for the Child's Right to Play. Thanks to sidewalk-free subdivisions, congested roads and ubiquitous commercial developments, "all the free space has been spoken for," says Moore. Roger Hart, an environmental psychologist at the City University of New York, cites a general "disinvestment in public space" as one reason children are playing less outdoors. Even public sandboxes are vanishing. Says Hart: "People have become paranoid about animal waste." What's more, as the average...