Word: aptly
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...high imperialism—the book’s subtitle, “One Man’s Battle for Human Rights in South America’s Heart of Darkness,” makes explicit allusion to Joseph Conrad’s famous novella, especially apt given the fact that Conrad and Casement met in 1889 in the Congo Free State. Casement’s own description of Arana recalls “the unseen presence of victorious corruption” that Marlow senses in Colonel Kurtz. “There is no doubt the brute has courage?...
...This feeling of forwardness is largely due to a change in percussion use from “Cymbals.” The band has eschewed their old tricks of changing rhythm and meter for drumbeats that are consistent throughout almost every track, which avoids monotony and instead highlights their apt use of electronic melodies and driving vocals...
...advise people to go to a teaching hospital because the doctors there are less likely to be bought by big Pharma, and they're more connected to the research. It's easy to take the samples and to be lazy. At a teaching hospital, you're more apt to find a psychiatrist who will listen to your story and prescribe medications they know work. My doctor is open to drugs like lithium that have been around for a long time and have a great track record but aren't going to make her rich...
...strategy is important, because the Census aims to put enumerators to work in the communities where they live. Part of the rationale is saving on transportation costs, but the bigger reason is to increase the chances that people will be willingly counted. "If people recognize you, they're more apt to open up and deal with you than if you're someone from the outside," says Maxwell Biggs, who manages Census recruiting in Florence, S.C. One of Biggs' challenges: hiring enumerators for two of the state's Native American tribes...