Word: connection
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...production creates mass disposal and the chance to find worth in the weird and worthless: bottle caps and matchbook covers, swizzle sticks and toilet seats. (There's a toilet-seat-art museum in San Antonio, Texas.) Since objects of desire tend to hold some special meaning, they let people connect with the instant intimacy of shared fixation. If you doubt this, stop by modernmoisttowelette.com to compare notes about the world's best hand wipes and their unexpected uses...
...uniform. But with only Markley and Brogan Berry (13 points, five assists) finishing in double figures and Finelli winding up scoreless, the aggressiveness and discipline that characterized Harvard’s win over Holy Cross last Thursday was sorely lacking. When the Crimson wasn’t watching Marist connect on relatively easy shots, it was fouling—the team finished with 21 personal fouls to the Red Foxes’ 12.“There was a lack of pride, emotion and fight,” Delaney-Smith said. “We’re not smart?...
...lack of consequence. Essentially a collection of anecdotes, The Lost Art of Walking is buttressed by the sheer fun of said anecdotes - lists of walking-themed popular tunes and miniprofiles of the stroll-obsessed. It's a fruitful topic: walking is so essential to daily life that one can connect the act to almost every and any historical event or human endeavor - battles, expeditions, feats of endurance, or plain old human evolution as we move from crouched primates to upright homo sapiens. And while Nicholson commits that all-too-common sin of conflating his subject with his life - the book...
...Mobility at the Caravan Salon Dsseldorf?Europe's largest caravanning exhibition?the Verdier Solar Power is a hybrid vehicle outfitted with a system of solar panels, called sun trackers, that provide electricity to the van's many accessories, including an onboard multimedia computer, a wireless Internet connection and a GPS that can calculate, among other things, the vehicle's ideal position in the sun. Although the Verdier won't be available until 2009, reservations can be made now for the $129,000 camper?and it's selling fast. "We think it's possible to connect with nature through technology...
...Harrington also said that the department is looking to connect the undergraduate research conference with the journal that Ju is trying to restart. She added that the faculty will hold a town hall meeting in early December to discuss more plans for improving the undergraduate curriculum...