Word: bunching
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Mothers group after her teenage son was killed in the 1989 crackdown. Several prominent lawyers and writers who are actively working and publishing also signed, giving Charter 08 more clout than it would carry if it were the work of only politically isolated dissidents. "It seems like a varied bunch, and I think the Internet helped bring these people together," says Joshua Rosenzweig, a Hong Kong-based official with the Dui Hua Foundation, a human-rights group. "It's not simply what many people call dissidents. There are a number of well-known liberal intellectuals and lawyers...
...best of the bunch are "The Fountain of Fair Fortune" and "The Tale of Three Brothers." "Fair Fortune" is about three witches and a knight and their quest to reach a magic fountain. "Three Brothers" is, of course, a compressed little gem about Rowling's great themes, love and death. (Though there's one thing I don't get about the story: are we supposed to believe that the Youngest Brother spends his whole life wearing the invisibility cloak? You'd think he'd at least wash it once in a while, at which time Death would swoop down...
...dance music with a singularity deserving of his improbable biography. This proto-disco he has come to stand for was marked by a graceful sense of levity, camp, and a fundamental belief in people’s ability to appreciate complexity and duality. I mean, what more could a bunch of Black, Latino, and gay DJs hope for but that—a normalization of what was normal for them. It is this optimism—and the belief that the brightest future would see a blurring of the dividing line between intricacy and accessibility—that separates this...
...according to Philipp Oberdoerffer, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School and the study’s lead author. He said that one job is to regulate certain gene, and another is to fix damaged areas of a cell. “You can’t wait for a bunch of proteins [to get to the damaged area],” so the protein is “recruited from its normal site to fix the damage, and then once it is done it goes back to its site,” Oberdoerffer said. While the protein is fixing...
...Ariana Paulson, chair of the Yale Graduate Employees and Students Organization, said she looked forward to the Obama administration’s labor-friendly stance and a “new surge of excitement [for unionization] after a bunch of pretty hard years...