Word: circuitousness
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...allow us journalists to interview them. Cable TV news channels are pageants of volunteerism, with much airtime filled by unpaid guests. The majority of these people aren't motivated by Kropotkin's spirit of mutual aid--they seek fame, an audience for their ideas, higher fees on the speaking circuit. But for those minutes on air, they are working for free...
...people in the junior circuit, she’s definitely one of the people that give me the most trouble. I’m glad it went well for me but she definitely gave me a run for my money...
Over the weekend, the Harvard skiing teams traveled to Hanover, N.H., to compete in the Dartmouth Winter Carnival. The Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association Circuit competition featured twelve universities from across the eastern seaboard. The Crimson came away with a ninth-place finish overall with a total of 223 points. With the home field advantage, the Big Green pulled out a narrow victory, finishing first at 756 points. The University of Vermont and Middlebury College came in second and third with 729 and 670 points, respectively. The ninth-place finish marks the third consecutive ninth-place standing for the Harvard...
...predicts that 2007 will be the year of Blake. Formerly of the Harvard College class of 2001, Blake broke out into the pro tour the summer of ’99. Leveling at a decent top 50 ranking in the pros (after being No. 1 on the college circuit), Blake seemed to make the transition swimmingly. That is until 2004, when he broke his neck in practice, contracted a virus which left one side of his face paralyzed, and lost his father to cancer. Other than being forced to shave his snazzy dreds, Blake made it through these obstacles surprisingly...
...spreads goodwill rather than violence. And, in a sign of the emergence of user-generated content, Frito-Lay 's Doritos ad, which was both created by a consumer and voted on by consumers in an online contest, also ranked high as a trigger for the brain 's reward circuit. The ads that elicited little response in the ventral striatum, according to the UCLA study, included Robert Goulet 's turn as an office gremlin for Emerald Nuts and Sprint 's commercial for "connectile dysfunction...