Word: connection
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...even the interaction between bones and cartilage doesn't tell the whole story. You also need to take into account the ligaments, those tough bands of tissue that connect bones to bones, and the muscles that surround and stabilize the joints. Ligaments can get stretched or torn, and muscles can atrophy from underuse, disrupting a joint's finely tuned mechanism...
...Robert Kazutomo Hori's revolutionary idea--to charge subscription fees to cell-phone users for online content--helped hatch Japan's mobile-Internet industry. In Japan, 57 million connect to the Internet on their cell phones, more than in any other country. Cybird subscriptions have jumped 55%, to 7.3 million, in the past six months; the firm turned its first profit on sales of $60 million in the fiscal year through March...
...with the state-owned telephone company. But he grew frustrated with the bureaucracy and formed his own engineering company. He applied to his old bosses for the country's first mobile-phone license yet had to fight them all the way to the supreme court before he could connect his first subscribers in 1998. For beating the establishment, he became a national hero, especially among opposition politicians, who today use cell phones to summon supporters to rallies and alert radio stations to fraud at polling places. His introduction of wireless technology has profited not only Masiyiwa--who says Econet...
...everything from painting to ballet, in addition to support groups where foster children can bond with each other. And DSS is always happy to accept an extra package of diapers or formula, two of the details that are frequently forgotten in transit. A call down to the DSS will connect you with any of these programs...
...story does stray into that home-childhood-boring-boring territory. Lewis, we learn, craves attention because Daddy ignored him; Martin, so detached he can't connect with anyone, cats around on his wife. The movie doesn't trust us to intuit its insights into its subjects, so we have to hear flat-out from Martin, "My mother always told me, 'Never let anybody know who you are.'" At one point, Hayes is forced to say, "When Jerry Lewis loves, he loves too much, and when Jerry Lewis hates, he hates too much." When this script explains, it explains too much...