Word: appealingness
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Haidar Abdul-Shafi, head of the Palestinian delegation, easily trumped Shamir. Though the substance of his talk was in many ways just as unyielding, its tone was mild, not complaining or self-righteous. He too was playing a public relations game, appealing to the Israeli peace movement and worldwide sympathizers...
One might wonder what exactly is so appealing about a mere card game. The students themselves had many different views on their beloved game. "I see it as a social activity. It is something that I can do with my friends outside of work," says David J. Grabiner, a mathematics...
In sum, the contest provides little incentive for otherwise apathetic students to hike across the river. For those of us who aren't big sports fans, the prize of athletic tickets is not particularly appealing.
The show firmly reminds us that although America was where the culture of Pop art triumphed, London was actually where the term originated. Its very first visual use was in a 1956 collage by the British artist Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different...
Memory's workings are equally complex on the psychological level. "We see things in a context. We select what we observe, and then we may distort that for a purpose," says neuropsychiatrist David Spiegel of Stanford University. Events can be altered, even as they occur, simply through lack of attention...