[00:01]brook

[00:03]I turn to the British Mushroom Bureau for help

[00:07]surely, if anyone will have the definitive answer,

[00:11]it's this gloriously specific institution.

[00:15]Their reply brooks no argument.

[00:23]brood

[00:25]Here, the men stock up on feed for their ravenous birds,

[00:30]sell and purchase pigeons,

[00:33]share practical lore about murderous hawks and raccoons,

[00:38]and like all proud fathers,

[00:40]brag about the extraordinary nature of their brood.

[00:46]boom

[00:48]Many consumers seem to have been influenced

[00:52]by stock-market swings,

[00:55]which investors now view as a necessary

[00:58]ingredient to a sustained boom.

[01:04]doom

[01:06]This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories

[01:11]of the 1973 oil shock,

[01:15]when they also almost tripled.

[01:23]Both previous shocks resulted in double-digit inflation

[01:28]and global economic decline.

[01:31]So where are the headlines warning of gloom

[01:34]and doom this time?

[01:41]loom

[01:43]A great deal of attention is being paid today

[01:47]to the so-called digital divide-the division

[01:51]of the world into the info(information)

[01:55]rich and the info poor.

[01:58]And that divide does exist today.

[02:02]My wife and I lectured

[02:04]about this looming danger twenty years ago.

[02:10]bloom

[02:12]"We've observed large blooms in the past off Barrow,

[02:17]although none of them at all like this," Barry Sherr,

[02:22]an Oregon State University professor of oceanography,

[02:26]said in an e-mail.

[02:30.30]satire

[02:32.19]A: That book is a satire on the administration of justice.

[02:36.82]B: Yes, it is.