Word: trove
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JORDAN Strong Jordanian-U.S. links have been reinforced by the WTC attack. Jordan provided a treasure trove of material confiscated from millennium-plot conspirators. Jordanian agents can be overzealous, using threats and torture to get info...
...those of you who don’t know, your House file is a treasure trove of information. It reads like a good biography—with the added benefit that it is entirely about you. The file contains such juicy documents as: your application to Harvard, complete with the markings from the admissions officer who read it; your roommate request form, including an administrator’s short synopsis of your personality and your first-year proctor’s evaluation of you at the end of your freshman year. (Yes, Tom, I saw the crack you made about...
Besides the standard copies of Vogue, Ladies’ Home Journal and Martha Stewart Living, there is also On Our Backs: The Best of Lesbian Sex. Behind the cover, which depicts a woman dressed up as a sailor kissing a hooker in front of Times Square, is a treasure trove of same-sex pornography...
...issue to a largely unaware and indifferent public. Now that African art and culture are coming into their own, we Africans ought to realize who we are and solidify our standing in a world that is dominated by Western civilization and thought. It is a pity that this treasure trove is being plundered by its own keepers. While it is sad, how can we really blame poverty-stricken subsistence farmers in an oil-rich economy for plundering the earth if Nigerian leaders leave a legacy of thoughtless actions? EDOZIE N. UMEH Lagos...
...made for big news when President Bush confidently declared on prime-time television last month that private research had produced a trove of more than 60 stem-cell lines. Most experts had assumed that there were as yet only a dozen or so such colonies of the cells that might become weapons against a range of debilitating diseases, from Alzheimer's to juvenile diabetes to Parkinson's. The vastly larger number was enough, Bush said, to "explore the promise and potential of stem-cell research"--and, not incidentally, enough to give him room for a politically palatable compromise...