Word: somewhat
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...attend religious services every week, and 8 out of 10 say they pray. Sure, they may enjoy dipping into the sultry waters of Dawson's Creek on Wednesday nights, but their ideas about sex would cheer William Bennett: 76% of those ages 12 to 14 say it's "somewhat or very important" to wait until marriage before having sex. When the other 24% were asked to name an appropriate age for premarital sex, these pubescent puritans settled on 23. The average age mentioned by parents...
...hand, I'm an outsider, an innocent abroad, so I'm somewhat removed from the deep-seated resentment between Catholics and Protestants that drives so much of the politics in Northern Ireland. On the other hand, I'm surrounded at the consulate by people who have spent years studying the politics here, so I can talk to them and get even the thorniest of questions answered. In a very real sense, I get the best of both worlds...
Trillion-dollar windfall or not, Bill Clinton is definitely still a somewhat parsimonious New Democrat. The President went public with his mostly pre-leaked Medicare reforms on Tuesday, a what's-not-to-like mix of senior-pleasing pork and future-inspired frugality. The headliner, a plan for prescription-drug coverage, would cost $118 billion over the next 10 years. But Clinton wants to add some copayments, nudge healthier people into cost-effective HMOs and increase competition among hospital-equipment contractors -? saving, by White House estimates, $44 billion over that same period. The less glamorous, below-the-fold story...
...remove maggots from under a forest giraffe's skin? Answer: Use your fingers. This bit of bush savvy can be found in Karesh's entertaining account of his life as a field veterinarian. Parasites abound. Insects try to pierce his flesh, while humans try to empty his wallet. Somewhat jarring is Karesh's outsize ego. Photos of the author in manly poses, as well as asides on what he is looking for in a relationship, sometimes give the book the feel of a personal ad. But then, what woman could resist a man who knows not to snore when hyenas...
...York's U.S. Senate seats and faced the possibility of being called as a witness in the Hubbell case. For Starr, the plea bargain allows him to leave the public stage with a certain level of vindication after having repeatedly pursued Hubbell on Clinton-related matters. It also sweetens somewhat the bitter taste of recent defeats -- the acquittal and mistrial of Susan McDougal and the mistrial of Juliet Hiatt Steele. Of course, it is unlikely to change the verdict of Starr's critics, who believe he needlessly helped drag the country through months of impeachment politics. Nor is it likely...