Word: attached
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...HEAR A MILLION? It is not often that a new bird is discovered. It is even rarer to get the chance to attach your moniker to it. But in Fort Worth next month, the Texas state office of the National Audubon Society will auction the right to bestow the species name on a bright-orange-chested antshrike discovered in the jungles of Brazil. Bids start at $200,000. No Ashleys or Trumps, please...
...began in 1920 and has gathered steam through the '80s and '90s. De Vere led a life that was a veritable mirror of Shakespeare's art. Why then did he not write under his own name? It would have been unseemly, his advocates point out, for a courtier to attach his name to public wares. And De Vere was a truly uncommon nobleman: he was the hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain and a sometime favorite of Elizabeth...
...hair primarily in two ways. Traditionally, bands or strands of hair are sewn or glued into the natural locks; these typically last two to four months. The newer and less expensive technique is simply to clip the extension under real hair. Women can keep the clips indefinitely and attach them on their own after a quick lesson from the hairdresser. "It's there if you want to create another dimension or have a little fun," says celebrity stylist John Sahag, who styled an extensions spread for the March issue of Glamour and put Jennifer Aniston in them for an upcoming...
...that you're not watching enough TV? Two new appliances, from Replay Networks ($699) and TiVo ($499), will help when they debut in the spring. The devices are slightly bigger than a VCR; each houses a huge hard drive that will store eight hours or so of programming. They attach to phone lines through which TV guides are constantly transmitted. Programming is as simple as calling up the week's listings, pointing and clicking...
...purpose of these procedural safeguards in Harvard's tenure review system and others like them is to shield professors and administrators from situations in which their private interests or the interests that attach to their offices might distort their judgment. In this context it is curious to hear the associate provost of Harvard University downplay the reach and significance of his administrative position. It is odd to witness the director of the Program in Ethics and the Professions depreciate the importance of fundamental norms of fair process. And it is false and insulting for Prof. Thompson to suggest that asking...