Word: chosen
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...Apple can build a playlist, like the new “Genius” feature, to go with a chosen song, it should be smarter about auto-selecting media for your device. Another small annoyance is the lack of an unlimited monthly music subscription in iTunes, a choice offered at Microsoft’s Zune Store, among others...
...people based on skin color is inappropriate, even when it is helpful information.” The researchers based their study on the board game “Guess Who?” The players were presented with a set of pictures and asked questions to determine the randomly-chosen picture of the other player. “In our version, half of the participants were white and half were African Americans,” Norton added. “The question we faced was whether a person would use race in their description as they would gender or height...
...portraits of the stereotypically drab colonists: feisty prefeminist Anne Hutchinson, semicrazed zealot Roger Williams and the colony's first governor, John Winthrop, who coined the phrase city on a hill in a 1630 sermon to describe his hopes for the settlement. That vision--of a community of God's chosen people that would inspire the world--forms the core of Vowell's argument: that the Puritans' beliefs begot an American exceptionalism that, at its best, undergirded a nation's faith in liberty and equality and at its worst helped justify misadventures from South Vietnam to Abu Ghraib...
...10—will be heading to Los Angeles next week to star in the college Family Feud tournament, airing in mid-November (Carron, Emma, “Harvard Students Ready To Lock Horns on Family Feud,” The Harvard Crimson, Oct. 3). The team members were chosen individually by audition tape, so FM decided to test their family togetherness by asking Harvard-themed Family Feud-style questions to see if their projections of what a group of 100 randomly-polled Harvard students might respond correspond with one another...
According to Mccamon, Feldman and Power were chosen for the diversity of their skill sets, and because “both of them are young and ambitious and clearly brilliant...