Word: vigilantes
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Furtive infrequent forays into the Free State aside, the narrator spends most of his days in less resplendent parts of Northern Ireland than stream's edge. His is a rather drab, traditional world, where the Catholic Church is the final arbiter of any question, but where religious allegiance must be...
In any case, we are uncertain of what we will face in the decades to come. Whatever will be will be, and while working for the good in our personal endeavors, we must also maintain wide, vigilant eyes to the passage of time, and the creation of worlds which are...
DIED. MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS, 108, ever vigilant empress of the Florida Everglades, who led a half-century crusade to preserve the fabled watery wilderness; in Miami. A Wellesley College-educated New Englander, Douglas first came to Florida in 1915. She penned her classic book The Everglades: River of Grass in...
Graves' Disease is an auto-immune disorder in which the body unaccountably attacks itself. In such disorders, the immune system is hyper-vigilant, prepared to fight off enemy viruses at all times. But when no such enemies are present, the immune system turns against its own tissues. This in turn...
The Olympics, to invoke a perhaps too-available and all-encompassing analogy, are much like the Titanic, both the movie and the ship. In other words, it's a grand, old-fashioned blockbuster that stirs you in some primal, half-forgotten place, however vigilant your defenses, throwing up simple human...