Word: sage
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...high on hash and trash. For some of the answers, consult Peter Nepstad?s essays on his always-enlightening website, The Illuminated Lantern. And if they don?t fill in all the gaps in your ignorance, consider the words of the Taoist priest in ?Devil Fetus.? He offers this sage advice ?to the dead and the alive: Take it easy...
Enduring frigid conditions, supporters heard from Green Party gubernatorial candidate Jill E. Stein ’73, Boston University Professor Howard Zinn and actor Tim Robbins, as the smell of burning sage permeated the park’s frozen fields and folk songs echoed off the facades of neighboring buildings...
...Thunderhawk, Rain-in-the-Face, Running Antelope. A package event for tourists? Hardly. The Indians got there on horseback and camped in the cold. In fact, they were not dressed for camcorders. They wore jeans, permanent press and wrap-around shades. When they set fire to a wad of sage, in a purification ritual, it was in a Folger's coffee can. And the graveside speeches touched on the plague of alcoholism and suicide among reservation youth. "We want our children to be proud that they are descendants of chiefs," says Sitting Bull kinsman McNeil. "So when they play cowboys...
...splintery salt pork in a pot with some cornmeal, sage and water to make what my new friends call "Pork and Cornmeal Stew" and what I call "Fatty Fat Fat." Actually, it isn't that bad. This is the first of many demonstrations that anything made with pork fat tastes good. The corps mostly used bear grease, but pork grease, Leandra figures, is a close approximation, and I get the feeling she knows what she's talking about. By the end of the afternoon, I have eaten more lard than I have eaten altogether in my entire previous life...
Remember the stocks Mom and Dad used to buy? Well, they're back. Last week more technology firms were booted from London's prestigious FTSE 100 index of the top 100 stocks. Now only one pure technology company, Sage, is left on the index, and the rest have been replaced by the "old economy" companies that make and distribute the things we eat, drink, and wear. While information technology and hardware have become the worst performing sectors on the market this year - the capitalization of software companies has fallen by an average of 39% - old economy stocks have quietly lasted...