Word: baits
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...Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2. Jesus and Yahweh Harold Bloom 3. Maimonides Sherwin B. Naland 4. Beyond Reason Robert Fisher 5. 1491 Charles Mann 6. Freakonomics Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner 7. Little History of the World E.H. Gombrich 8. The World Is Flat Thomas Friedman 9. Bait and Switch Barbara Ehrenreich 10. Lincoln’s Melancholy Joshua Shenk
...bait-and-switch that, imperceptibly at first, draws the reader into the emotional realm of the soldier. Gingerly, he piques our interest with funny anecdotes and moments of suspense...
It’s the start of a new year, time for Oscar bait to start dangling at Kendall and remind us how awful the summer in movies really was. I for one have noticed a curious lack of film-going anecdotes in my friends’ brief appraisals of their summer vacations...
...departure from its preference for the homegrown variety, and potentially a huge windfall for Sun, since Google needs ranches full of them. The companies may also work together to ?promote and enhance? Sun technologies, like the Java Runtime Environment and the OpenOffice.org productivity suite. There lies the tantalizing bait. OpenOffice is Sun?s weak rebuttal to Microsoft?s dominant suite of MicrosoftOffice products. If Google develops a killer line of web-based desktop products for Sun computers, Microsoft could be on the ropes...
...squid, and the Japanese found the squid by following the whales off the Ogasawara islands, about 1,000 km south of Tokyo. Starting in 2002, the team searched for squid in the area for around two weeks every year, lowering into the waters a digital camera and weighted hooks baited with common squid and mashed shrimp. Depth mattered: the giant squid were believed to live about 1,000 m down. "At that point, our squid-watching turned unmistakably into squid-hunting," says Kubodera. No squid took the bait until Sept. 30, 2004, when an 8-m giant with a taste...