Word: collectivity
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...seems like a very banal, everyday object; they're floating everywhere. I think I have one from the Alamo, you know, famous sites...I travel a lot. If you're traveling, you can't carry much with you. Feather, dust, tarnish rubbing--those things are easy to collect and they're not things that people mind you taking. The feather came from Freud's pillow when I borrowed it for The Maybe and I saw the feather sticking out of the pillow and I got terribly excited about the feather. The feather seemed to be about the subconscious and sleep...
...question, contrary to the staff's presentation, does not infringe upon the well-defined police powers reserved to the states by the 10th Amendment. What the law in question does is create a civil remedy, whereby victims of domestic violence can collect damages from their attackers...
...came to him in a dream. Ole Schou was a young Danish business student when he awoke one morning two decades ago with images of spermatozoa swimming in his head. Schou's strange nocturnal vision gave rise to an obsession. "Some people collect stamps; others play golf," he explains. "I studied sperm." With no scientific or medical training, Schou set out to make himself an expert, poring over the scientific literature and consulting specialists about different methods for freezing sperm. His goal: to establish "the best sperm bank in the world...
...father, Juan Gonzalez, has declined to travel to Miami to collect his son, citing fear for his personal safety and concern that he may find himself entangled in legal proceedings by his relatives there. Even though the Castro government has formally acquiesced to the father's traveling to the U.S., it is reluctant to allow him to enter a situation over which Havana has no control. And after Juan Gonzalez's emotive outburst on ABC's "Nightline," in which he talked of feeling violent toward the relatives who were keeping his son in Miami, advocates of Elian's return...
...option may have become politically unpalatable for Washington. Sending Elian home against the wishes of his Florida family would require the INS to issue a deportation order. That would force the Clinton administration into a showdown with Florida's anti-Castro exile community, with Republicans only too eager to collect the dividend. So with an election looming, it may be some time before Juan Gonzalez is reunited with...