Word: somewhat
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...opposite and equally true assertion. Not quite. If you say Texas is big, you cannot also say that Texas is small. But if you say Texas is historically glorious, you can equally say that Texas has been ugly and mean, a nest of fire ants and rattlesnakes and men somewhat worse. If you say it is heroic, you might also point out that Sam Houston, when he lived among the Cherokees, was known as Big Drunk. If you say Texas is rich, you can also say it is desperately poor and hardscrabble, and always has been...
...liberal wing of Jewish thought, within which as a Reform rabbi I include myself, would come at the problem somewhat differently. Holding that Jewish legal tradition represents a compendium of each generation's best efforts to understand and fulfill God's will, it is possible to believe that contemporary understandings may in some instances reflect a moral or ethical perspective more relevant than that of an older world view. For me, the image of the Creator which I believe is present in each person I deal with takes precedence over the legal strictures. I cannot bring myself to believe that...
Demographers somewhat inelegantly refer to the Baby Boom generation as "the pig in the python," a moving bulge that distorts and distends everything around it as it rumbles through the stages of life. Locked together in a crowded race, many Boomers have learned to use their elbows. The most outspoken members retain a kind of generational arrogance epitomized by Stockman's egregious assertion in his newly published memoirs (The Triumph of Politics; Harper & Row) that the so-called Reagan Revolution was in fact not Reagan's: "It was mine...
...playing Mr. Mom has meant more than learning the way to Toys R Us. They have discovered, somewhat to their surprise, the private joys of daily child rearing that women have always known. In the Yankelovich poll for TIME, 63% of 30- to 40-year-olds stated that "raising children is a main satisfaction in my life." Revering and caring for children has served as an antidote to some of the egocentric tendencies of the Me generation. "We were taught that we were the most important people in the world," says Columnist Greene, who became a father...
...flavor. A full-blooded beefalo is three-eighths bison and five-eighths bovine, according to standards set by the American Beefalo World Registry. Beefalo averages 80% less fat and 55% fewer calories than comparable cuts of ordinary beef. Two samples from animals that were fed differently were tested, with somewhat different results. Beefalo from Healey's Market in Manchester, Vt., was slightly richer, more flavorful and moister than comparable cuts from Chenango Beefalo in Greene, N.Y. Although neither example of beefalo matched Brae, both were certainly adequate. Steaks cooked rare were the most successful cuts, even though they were paler...