Word: touts
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...area you will be visiting and can arrange emergency-helicopter evacuation service should a member of your party be injured. Check online travel chat rooms for recommendations and reviews. (Lonely Planet's Thorn Tree travel forum is a good place to start; go to lonelyplanet.com.) Beware of guides who tout their own services. Kamal Bhatta, of Beyond the Limits Trek and Expeditions, provides excellent value, with the added benefit of knowing which teahouses serve the best apple pie along the Annapurna trail; visit his informative website at seenepal.com...
...QLink. A lightweight pendant worn as a necklace, it supposedly helps the body ward off electromagnetic fields and increases mental stamina. Clarus Products International has sold more than 200,000 of the pendants since 1999 and claims that 300 pros are now wearing them. The company cites scientists who tout the pendant's effects and offers stats showing that PGA tour players are more likely to make the tournament cut when wearing the pendant. One believer is Bruce Fleischer, who won the U.S. Seniors Open the week after he started wearing a QLink. "I don't believe in good luck...
Last Thursday, President George W. Bush visited Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love founded by Quaker settlers, to tout his latest initiative to increase the involvement of religious groups in carrying out the federal government’s goals. While his remarks were punctuated by calls of “amen” by the group of religious and community activists assembled for his address, the actual measure that he was unveiling is worthy of anything but praise...
...gladdens the Party. Political season is a time to express fealty. In the old days that meant waving Chairman Mao's Little Red Book and singing The East Is Red. But these days, the Party has no ideology to tout beyond Jiang's Theory of the Three Represents, and it is too pragmatic to expect public enthusiasm, genuine or feigned. Indifference is okay?better, at least, than open opposition...
...marked by complete gridlock. And despite the constant Republican refrain this fall that Tom Daschle is a tyrannical obstructionist, both parties are to blame. Republicans in the House have spent most of the past six months passing bills they know Senate Democrats will never touch, just so they can tout them during the campaign. Neither party has been willing to sit down and work out compromises...