Word: collections
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...Antismoking activists quickly pounced, taking out ads in several major U.S. newspapers denouncing the study. But it's not Big Tobacco that's putting a price on human life. It's governments worldwide, including the U.S., and they collect on both ends: Through excise taxes that penalize smokers for the social costs they supposedly impose on society, and through those savings that come because smokers tend to die earlier (and thus cost governments less) than nonsmokers...
...often the case with discoveries like this, Haile-Selassie was not specifically looking for the things he found. He had set out to better understand how the ancient ecosystems worked and evolved. "I didn't even think about finding hominids," he says. "All I wanted to do was collect enough vertebrate bones so that I could write my dissertation." In December 1997, though, at a place called Alayla, he spotted a piece of jawbone lying on the rock-strewn ground. "I picked up the mandible less than five minutes after we got there," he recalls, "but didn't realize...
Most of us blindly followed the Chance card that sent us from high school graduation to Harvard matriculation; Go Directly to College. Do Not Pass Go. Do Not Collect $200. We barely allowed three months to pull ourselves together and really consider the journey...
...Spatter might indicate that it was created by a forceful traumatic event. The spatter pattern can reveal a lot about what created it. But the bottom line is they're going in to a scene that hasn't even been established as a crime scene. They have to collect evidence so that later, if they need to, they can go back and make sense...
Websites, particularly e-commerce sites, collect a lot of data from visitors. If you buy a book or a magazine at a bookstore and pay cash, there will be no record linking you to the purchase. But the books, magazines, music and movies you buy online are all linked to you by name. Web retailers are collecting a sizable database of information on individual purchasers. Who's buying pornography, and who's buying extreme political tracts. Who's buying cancer drugs, or contraception...