Word: vitalize
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These were working-class kids, and a lot of these guys ended up in Vietnam just a couple years later. In those days they were still doing the thing with the cigarettes - the pack held in place with a rolled-up T-shirt sleeve. Elvis was still important, still vital, at least to them. They wore their hair like Elvis, slicked back. They tore apart cars or motorcycles and undeneath their fingernails there was always a line of black. I called them greasers. They had names...
...cannot endorse the gutting of vital government services that benefit all Americans to fund an unneeded tax cut that almost exclusively helps the rich. Not since the days of the Smoot-Hawley tariff has such a bad idea gained such wide currency. Democrats and responsible Republicans should rally behind their smaller, fairer alternative. They should campaign to delay the passage of tax bills until the final budget is agreed upon, and they should take Greenspan's advice and tie any tax cuts to successful reduction of the national debt...
...this makes some wonder if Branson does too much. In fact, Whitehorn told Time that Virgin is going to stop launching lines in order to expand its current businesses into new markets. But the vital point is that like any brand, the Virgin label is part illusion. (Did Coke ever really teach the world to sing? Is Virgin Cola anything but another kind of bubbly brown-sugar water packed into bright red cans?) Branson says he's the business world's equivalent of Ralph Nader. His Virgin Atlantic really did innovate business-class air travel and as Virgin Blue airline...
...drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The 19-million-acre region is one of the last territories of unspoiled wilderness in the United States, a refuge ecosystem home to hundreds of plant and animal species. Birds from across North America depend on the refuge as a vital migration area, as do caribou herds on which a number of native Alaskan communities rely. There is no reason to threaten this wilderness when we should be working towards energy conservation and efficiency...
...Maybe Roma Downey really is watching over each and every one of us, but you will still feel a lot better with the Digital Angel strapped to your wrist. This device, which took best in show at last week's Internet Wireless World, has a sensor that monitors your vital signs--heart rate, blood pressure and so on--and a tiny satellite receiver that plots your exact location at all times. If anything goes awry, a transmitter alerts the medics and tells them where you are. And if you are really in trouble, it will page Roma...