Word: vigilantism
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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...
"Freedom denied anywhere is freedom denied everywhere," he said. "Unless you assist us, this environment could spread from here. We need you; we need you to be vigilant."
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...
And what about our perceptions of rape itself? Rape victims are often subjected to the subsequent blame of "friends," both male and female. Repeating mantras of "Why were you in his room alone?" or "You led him on, didn't you?" insidiously implicate her as the guilty party. It's...