Word: blushed
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...role of mayor of a complex, realistic miniature metropolis, complete with crime, garbage trucks, power plants and a temperamental populace. SimCity was a complex system that required constant, careful tweaking to keep it in equilibrium. This activity doesn't instantly register as "fun"--in fact, at first blush it sounds suspiciously similar to "work." When he showed it to publishers, they said, "But how do you win? There's no win-lose...
...practice critical thinking all day. By night, we write response papers ripping apart political theories and literary masterpieces. The earnest “Hey hey, ho ho, war in Iraq must go” of the kids in front of the Science Center offends our critical sensibilities. We blush, cringe, smirk and flee to the safety of the library, even when we support the chanters’ cause...
...only possible but is seemingly essential. And, since Chinese corporate dealings are often murky, investors in the country's few listed companies have come to expect that behind every great Chinese company is a great crime?or at least accounting shenanigans that would make former Enron CFO Andy Fastow blush...
Take John F. Kennedy High School, which at first blush is a picture of integration, with 21% white students, 22% black, 35% Asian and 16% Latino (the remainder are primarily Pacific Islanders, Filipinos and American Indians). J.F.K. routinely ships top graduates to Ivy League schools. But while the typical Asian kid has a 3.01 grade-point average, African-American kids score 1.85. What's going on? School district superintendent Jim Sweeney attributes the gap to class differences. J.F.K. students come from two neighborhoods--a middle-class area known as the Pocket, and a low-income, predominantly black and Hispanic part...
...June and July combined, stock funds saw estimated outflows of $60 billion, while ETFs had inflows of $11 billion. What gives them such allure? All the things that suddenly matter when markets turn rocky: diversification, tax efficiency, low costs and portfolio visibility that would make most fund managers blush...