Word: connection
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...thrown open to anyone, however young or unimportant. The point was no longer to pack a book with facts about your life (studied here, married there) but to produce a narrative, preferably of the gut-wrenching variety (dropped out here, cheated on her there) with which the reader could connect. The literary sensation of 2000 was another memoir by an unknown?this time, an American journalist named Dave Eggers, who hit it big with a recap of his harrowing childhood called A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. All at once, memoir writing became one of those things everybody was doing...
...help itself instead by launching its own drop-off service? Durzy admits that the growth of U.S. drop-off firms took eBay by surprise, and that it has considered launching its own facility. But, he says, "we need to focus on what we do best: making it easier to connect buyers and sellers." Or perhaps it's waiting for a market shakeout. California-based AuctionDrop, one of the biggest operations in the U.S., recently closed four of its five stores, shifting focus to drop-off points inside parcel-courier UPS' stores. That might not be the best move, says Scott...
Junior center Brian Cusworth grabbed a career-high 15 rebounds for the Crimson but struggled from the field. He followed a Matt Stehle miss with a remarkable one-handed dunk during the second half but failed to connect on his five other attempts from the field...
...sites have noise-reduction plans. Some of those noise complaints also shed light on an old problem: unlicensed, makeshift bars. But which calls were just about illegal clubs, and which were about rowdy neighbors? New York City's 311 staff, working with half a dozen agencies, used maps to connect data about different sorts of calls--noise, public drunkenness, double parking--to find the clubs and bust them...
...father, and soon the middle-aged literary novelist is parsing the finer points of Akira and Astro Boy. Carey is intrigued enough by this dazzling stuff?he hopes they'll "enter the mansion of Japanese culture through its garish, brightly lit back door"?but his real intention is to connect with Charley, who is on the brink of disappearing into the teenage years. So when Carey takes his son to Tokyo, where he arranges for them to interview Charley's favorite anim? directors and manga artists, he's really becoming a gaijin twice over: in Japan, with its cultural crossed...