Word: apartness
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...junior at Sharon High School in Sharon, Mass. He discovered the Web site through a Facebook group. “It was a really helpful tool,” he says. “It was free, it was at my convenience, and it worked.” Apart from using the practice tests on CollegeBoard’s Web site, Kendall says exclusively used INeedAPencil.com for test prep. “It’s very interactive, and it just seems more hands-on than, say, Kaplan or Barron’s, where it’s so large...
...Apart from the moral and ethical problems that buying off voters raises, such an act can increase instability in this frail country. It could lead the opposing party to doubt the legitimacy of the elections and lead to calls for another round of elections...
...McConaughey a movie star? Because he gets a significant number of people to pay to see him in dreck. And Ghost of Christmas Past is down there with the worst. Its deficiencies are too severe to bother tearing apart: Connor's short, charisma-deficient brother (Breckin Meyer) who comes from a totally other gene pool, if not gene planet, than his studly sib; cinematography that makes everyone except McConaughey look ugly (the same artless deglamorizing recently evident in 17 Again and State of Play); hapless guest appearances by Michael Douglas and Anne Archer, who must have wished they were back...
...fast spread of swine flu suggests the world is small, the global response to the epidemic reminds us that in many ways it's still light years apart. Swine flu has been making headlines in the Western world, but in places like India and Africa, where "pandemic" is just another part of the daily vocabulary, no one has so much as stifled a sneeze...
...situation for everyone involved. A similar situation occurs when someone attends an event with a group of friends. While all their pals wait in the main line, they must make their way over to the SEF table to get the ticket they could not afford to buy, setting them apart from the group...