Word: bricked
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...basic eight-stud red Lego brick was first sold in Denmark in 1949. But it took a further nine years for Ole Kirk's son, Godtfred Kirk, to file the patent for the versatile "Automatic Binding Brick" with its interlocking 2x4 studs. The plastic bricks are part of a unique system: tiny tubes inside give the knobs on top of other blocks more places to grip. They hold together well but can be taken apart easily by a child. And consistency has been key: the bricks produced today have the same bumps and holes, and can still interlock with those...
...January 28, 1958, that then-Lego head Godtfred Kirk Christiansen filed a patent for the iconic plastic brick with its stud-and-hole design. Since then, the company has made a staggering 400 billion Lego elements, or 62 bricks for every person on the planet. And if stacked on top of one another, the pieces would form 10 towers reaching all the way from the Earth to the Moon...
...society. There have been numerous recent demonstrations of the emerging power of the Internet, ranging from exposés of corruption to a web campaign that led to the freeing of hundreds of children and mentally handicapped men who had been kidnapped and forced to work as slaves in brick kilns to the relocation of a chemical plant away from the port city of Xiamen. Still, citizen journalism can be deadly work. Earlier this month, a man who filmed a confrontation between security officials and villagers protesting the siting of a garbage dump was beaten to death by the enraged...
...Council on Bioethics, who had taught Nava in two classes, written him a letter of recommendation and recently agreed to act as his academic adviser. He also confessed to fabricating the assault on himself. He inflicted his own wounds, pummeling himself on the face, scraping his head against a brick wall and breaking a glass bottle over his head. Princeton Township Detective Sergeant Ernie Silagyi, who is investigating the case, cites "underlying personal reasons." But Nava's story also points to similar incidents - mostly attached to heated political debates or controversies - at other campuses...
...University.” She has, indeed. A breath of fresh, sickly sweet, cotton-candy scented air that’s beginning to turn the dourest place on earth into a lavender plantation. It’s a rainbow-riffic new era—who wants red brick when you can have gingerbread instead...