Word: vitalizing
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...other hand, sharks, which evolved before the dinosaurs some 350 million years ago, are of enormous scientific interest and play a vital role in ocean ecology. Ranging from the 0.1-m (6-in.) Caribbean dwarf dog shark to the 18-m (60-ft.) whale shark -- the world's biggest fish -- they boast keen intelligence and some of the sharpest senses in the ocean. Many of the 350 species are capable of hearing a wriggling fish up to a mile away, and most can smell the merest trace of blood in the ocean. The shark's eyes work like night-vision...
...prolific (27 plays for Simon, 40-plus for Ayckbourn), they write cinematically physical comedy and, like some wines, they don't seem to travel. Simon is known in Britain mostly for films of his plays; the British Ayckbourn is staged in the U.S., but rarely in major venues. The vital thing they share is a determination to push comedy toward its mainstream limits. Absent Friends, from 1974, prefigures later and even darker works, too many not yet seen in the U.S. Lynne Meadow, who directed Woman in Mind better than Ayckbourn himself, is again shrewd, save in miscasting the clueless...
...shovel means I might save a leg." The initial hole is called a "hasty" or a "run and dive." With each passing day, the hasties are dug farther down, so that by now they are armpit deep and flanked by sandbags. This is low-tech war of the most vital kind...
...Democrats are not prepared to support the use of force in a situation like this, when the aggression is so unambiguous, the international community so cohesive and the stakes so great, how can anyone ever expect the Democratic Party to support the use of force in defense of vital American interests in the far more common circumstances of confusion, ambiguity and uncertainty...
...Epps knows something we don't know, he should tell us. If he is concerned about issues of liability, he should be up front and tell us. So far he hasn't. The College should not limit the ability of students to make these vital cost-benefit calculations. The restrictions undermine an important function of college life--to provide an arena in which students make these kinds of decisions without a watchful parent or guardian to oversee them...