Word: taboo
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...General Electric's nuclear-energy business. Concerns about global warming and demand for electricity are growing, and prices for fossil fuels like natural gas are steadily rising. Even environmentalists like Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand, Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore and scientist James Lovelock have endorsed the once taboo energy source as a credible, clean alternative to coal- and natural-gas-powered plants. While most Americans still don't want a nuke plant in their backyard, some economically depressed areas, like Port Gibson, Miss., and Oswego, N.Y., are actively lobbying to be the home of a new reactor...
...after surviving the cocktail hour from hell, I attended a practice session of 127, Iran's hottest underground rock band. Because the regime still pretends to oppose the toxic culture of the West, rock music is semi-taboo, so the band rehearses in a soundproof bunker inside an abandoned greenhouse in a low-rise complex of concrete apartment blocks on the outskirts of the city. The band members compare themselves with writers in Soviet Russia--miserably creative, creatively miserable. They sing in English and dress in the uniform of global grunge: long sideburns, faded Converse sneakers and plaid shirts...
...seriousness, according to the handbook for resident tutors, any “amorous relationship” between undergraduates and resident tutors is grounds for the resident tutor’s dismissal. That means not only your resident tutor, but any resident tutor on campus. Certainly tutor-student relationships are taboo, but it is a little known fact that they are strictly forbidden in the College rulebooks...
Alexander J. Tennant ’08 said after the meeting that the taboo surrounding the female orgasm is problematic...
...ghouls, or the Devil is not a safe, spiritual experience. In the words of the New York Times, “while you may fight the Devil and lose, you may not fight as the Devil.” With this in mind, would controlling Jesus himself also be taboo, as sacrilegious role-playing? After all, we definitely don’t want to be playing...