Word: sparely
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...astronauts who perished represent the best that humankind has to offer, yet few of us knew their names before this disaster. Why didn't we stop for a moment before the Columbia's launch to celebrate this brave and diverse group of space pioneers? Why couldn't we spare a moment of prime-time television to have our highest public officials introduce these role models to our youth? It was a lost opportunity. Only after their deaths do we celebrate their lives. FRED POLITINSKY Wayne...
...Spare Key Still Shiny...
...variety of dishes. But when Prince Siddartha left the walls of this paradise and saw the suffering around him, no longer did sweet meats soothe him. Instead, he took up a beggar’s bowl and walked the North Indian countryside asking those he encountered if they could spare some scraps of food for the Buddha. In the years to come, this wooden bowl would hold nothing fancier than parched rice and lentils. The Buddha’s diet had gone from magnificent to minimalist...
...sculpture’s destroyers, Amy E. Keel ’04 and her roommate Mary C. Cardinale ’03, said they leveled the ice penis in order to spare others from being offended...
...gluttony is in your genes? The nature-vs.-nurture debate changes when scientists find a gene that makes you shy, makes you reckless, makes you sad. For families haunted by generations of loss to cystic fibrosis and Tay-Sachs disease and sickle-cell anemia, prenatal testing may spare them a future as painful as the past. But if we can screen embryos for curses, should we also screen for gifts? Do you want to know if your child will have perfect pitch or violet eyes? Would parents love their children differently if they designed them to order...