Word: amoebae
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...Nonetheless, there is always hope - as summiteers could discover if they consider their surroundings. Canary Wharf may have looked like a white elephant in the 1990s, but - not without some trials and tribulations - it has since become an essential part of London's economy, expanding the center of that amoeba-like city to the east. So do big bets on real estate ever pay off? Anyone who saw the sheer scale of decrepitude and decay of London's docklands in the early 1980s like I did will need no convincing that they sometimes do. In the ever turning cycle...
...deal and it’s not difficult at all. I mean, let’s face it: if you’re sitting there right now, you are proof-positive that every single one of your ancestors, going back to Australopithecus down to the very first amoeba, they got it on, at least once, successfully, with somebody, so it can’t be that tough. The second step is to make it fun...if you give them strategies to make it fun and interesting such that they look forward to doing it instead of being afraid of doing...
...picnic dinner on Hollywood Boulevard, followed by going to Amoeba Records, followed by going over to the Santa Monica Pier and walking on Venice Beach and then probably getting beaten up by a homeless person if I’m on Venice Beach at night...
...Potato Chips that are Shaped Like Things.” I encourage everyone to join. We meet Thursday nights at 9:00 p.m. by the vending machines in Loker. Last week’s meeting was a great success. We found a chip shaped like a really large amoeba, and another chip shaped like a fat, upside-down “T.” It’s great resumé material, as everyone who joins the club is made a vice president...
...Amoeba music is a warehouse-size record store on Sunset Boulevard that is filled with lonely, unshaven guys in vintage T shirts and about half a million CDs. It is High Church for music geeks, and strolling through Amoeba with Beck--the wispy singer who has made a career out of fusing rap, rock, folk, funk, irony and earnestness--is like cruising the Vatican with the Pope. As Beck moves from the back-room blues section to the used vinyl, everyone sneaks a quick, reverent glance and returns to flipping through the racks, or at least pretending to flip through...