Word: apartness
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...will do well. They get bigger, stronger and more organized. Others, even "smart" things like iPods and cell phones, laptops, cars and TVs, stop working immediately. They rust and decompose. (I know because I've dropped most of these things in.) Inanimate things, including, alas, my boat, naturally fall apart. They are obeying a law of nature. The salty water just makes them do it faster...
...reports of bogus parts soared. They came in because mechanics noticed an odd color, or that metal edges were rough, or that boxes were improperly labeled. When Federal Express mechanics ran across starters they thought were fakes, their quality-control department and our agents tore the $10,000 piece apart and found reworked scrap and car parts...
...from the beach, she apparently ventured into a restricted area, albeit one not particularly well marked, according to an eyewitness, Lee In Bok, a 23-year-old college student from the South. What happened next is in dispute. Lee says he heard two shots ring out, about 10 seconds apart. One struck Park in the leg, the other in the chest. She staggered and fell to the ground. According to Lee, three North Korean soldiers ran out of the nearby woods and gently kicked Park's body to see if she was dead...
Plenty of pop albums have been ripped apart by music critics - including a few by model-singer turned French First Lady Carla Bruni. But Bruni's newest release, Comme Si Rien N'Etait (translation: As If Nothing Happened), out July 11, has elevated her well beyond ordinary targets of music snobbery like Vanessa Paradis or Kylie Minogue...
...much of his "Purpose-Driven" organizational base by putting his sermons up on the web so that others could use them. One of the reasons that Martin Luther King Jr. was granted so much slack after it was discovered that he had plagiarized some of his doctoral thesis (apart from the fact that he was one of the greatest humans our country has produced) was the tacit understanding that when clergymen or pious laypeople write, sing or speak of God, it is God and not their own egos that they are glorifying, even when they crib from someone...