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...subjective, difficult to define. Of course, if you are sitting around worrying what the word "fun" means, you are not having any. A minute ago, I looked it up, coming first to its unpleasant neighbors on the dictionary page, "fungus," and "funest," which means "portending death or evil." (The root: funus, funeral or destruction.) Then, Fun: n. 1) a practical joke, a hoax; 2) sport, merriment, frolicsome amusement, playful action or speech; 3) a source of amusement, an object of ridicule...
...starting to add megasize movie complexes to his malls--complete with all the latest embellishments, such as stadium seating and digital sound, which are relatively new to European filmgoers. Kaempfer reckons that discount designer duds aren't the only staples of the American lifestyle that can take root in Europe...
There were probably a lot of places Bill Bradley would rather have been today than standing on a platform in Green Bay, Wis., next to Al Gore. Like at the dentist getting a root canal. But there he was, rooting for the Democrats, talking up Wisconsin's Democratic senators and generally paying as little attention to Gore as was humanly possible. (It must have been a tough moment for Gore when he realized he scored fewer mentions than Russ Feingold in Bradley's speech...
...facts, agreed there was a "substantial likelihood" that corps officials illegally wasted funds, and it referred the case to Defense Secretary William Cohen for further investigation. (The lock study has cost $54 million since 1993.) Corps headquarters has characterized Sweeney's charges as "very troubling" and has pledged to root out any wrongdoing. In addition to the Pentagon, Congress and the National Academy of Sciences are looking into Sweeney's allegations. Despite the probes, the corps hopes to justify the bigger locks by year's end and seek money from Congress to build them...
...twenty-five jugs of pesticide. Four motorcycles. Three hundred propane tanks. Two Jacuzzis. Seven lawn mowers. One prosthetic leg. And it goes on--a partial inventory of the debris that Chad Pregracke, 25, has hauled from the depths of the muddy Mississippi in a lonesome crusade to Roto-Root the river all the way from St. Louis to Dubuque. It's an all consuming mission, worthy of an aquatic Don Quixote, and Pregracke's Mississippi River Beautification and Restoration Project has been at it for almost four years. After waking each morning on the crowded houseboat that is home...