Word: touts
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...proportions of the global AIDS pandemic or the United States’ responsibility to do something about it. But few claim to be greater champions in the battle against global AIDS than our own President Bush. This summer Bush traveled to Africa, the epicenter of the AIDS crisis, to tout his unprecedented five-year, $15 billion AIDS initiative, which he announced in his last State of the Union Address. The trip was billed as a veritable victory lap of the continent, a chance to put a more compassionate face on the administration’s foreign policy...
...decades, working fireplaces have added an undeniable charm to the older rooms on campus. Some of Harvard’s greatest minds have studied, argued and partied in front of their flames during Cambridge’s long, icy winters. Even guidebooks for applicants tout Harvard’s working, polished-wood fireplaces. The bright, crackling logs connect current Harvard students to the University’s past in a way John Harvard’s statue cannot...
...Endangered-animal protection is largely a foreign concept in China. Some 40% of the rhinoceros horn poached in Africa winds up in China, where pharmacists tout its restorative powers. The same disregard goes for many of China's native endangered species. "If I could find a good way to cook tiger, I'd prepare it," says a chef surnamed Chen at Shanghai's Guhua Garden restaurant as he hacks up a freshly skinned king snake...
Over croissants and coffee yesterday morning, University President Lawrence H. Summers and the leaders of four other Boston-area universities met with local politicians and businesspeople to tout their schools’ economic impact on the region...
Proponents of these new measures give two basic arguments. First, they claim that the logging will help to prevent forest fires, because if there are no trees, there cannot be any fire. Second, they tout the benefits to the economy of the region. Both of these rationales merely attempt to excuse the unconscionable destruction of the last of the American wilderness. Not only does it not make sense to cut down trees in order to save them, but it also defies all ecological wisdom. Clearing underbrush, not cutting down trees, most easily prevents fires. And even if there...