Word: ante
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...ambition is fuel, Sarokhan, who describes himself as a “loud, glory-seeking, ant-to-be-in-the-center-of-the action” kind of guy, is about ready for take-off. He’s a few parts history buff, spouting off obscurities like the exact dates that Hitler experienced bomb scares; a few parts clean-cut prep school good ol’ boy, all tucked-in polo shirts and khakis; a few parts all-American gentleman, opening doors and shaking hands and even drifting into a patriotic Southern accent despite being a New Jersey native...
Rather like the ant in an Aesop's fable, people with thrifty genotypes--wisely, it might be argued--prepare for hard times by consuming and storing more calories than they expend. In this fashion, they create a reservoir of fat that comes in handy when food grows scarce. It's easy to imagine that repeated famines over the course of human development practically forced the biological system for regulating weight to skew strongly toward resisting weight loss rather than protecting against weight gain...
Emergence has become a common way of thinking about the world: zillions of little units--in this case neurons--do their own thing but together make up an entity of almost unfathomable complexity. Change the word neurons to "six-legged workers," and you'd have an ant colony. Change "ants" to "online buyers and sellers," and you'd have eBay. Change that to "stock traders," and you'd have NASDAQ...
...paper, which will vary from 12 to 18 pages a day, carried nine stories on its front page yesterday, including pieces on a court battle over New York wine sales, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s welfare reform position and an Associated Press story about the discovery of an ant colony stretching from Italy to Spain...
...have its Icicle Ball cancelled, I ventured to the somewhat hallowed halls of New York city’s Hammerstein Ballroom, which was not so unlucky. Artist Direct’s Snocore mini-festivals have two different tours that run concurrently. The rock tour, which this year featured Alien Ant Farm and The Apex Theory, caters for the harder-headed listeners, while the romantically named Icicle Ball presents an eclectic mix of artists tending towards the more adventurous. This year’s Ball even featured poet Saul Williams on some of the stops...