Word: cooler
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...water-cooler conversation pretty much everywhere you go," says Bruce Cosgrove, head of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce (local Congressman John Doolittle voted against the bill). "We're all talking about this right now. [But] we are at the mercy of Congress. In the end, we have to hope they get it right, and that's where the uncertainty fits back in again...
...online rumors and gossip differ from traditional water-cooler gabbing...
...face interactions do: People bring the rumor to the group, they set forth hypotheses and provide information, opposing camps sometimes arise, the hypotheses are evaluated, and either a consensus is achieved or the group splinters on this point. Online rumor can travel faster and farther than the office water-cooler circle; this has implications for the rumor's accuracy. If discussion is active and people of diverse opinions engage in it, the rumor stands a fair chance of becoming accurate. If, on the other hand, the rumor tends to circulate only among like-minded people, accurate rumors seems less likely...
Every great while there comes a tale that completely defies belief, like the frozen remains of Bigfoot packed in a cooler in Georgia. This is one such story (except this one is true). It's about one man's happy experience while flying commercial...
...Beijing. After Athens, Speedo brought an army of biophysicists, kinesiologists, and engineers to bear on overhauling the last generation of its Fastskin racing suit, the FS Pro. So the LZR Racer has a few more bells and whistles than the Tracer Rise. For one thing, it looks a lot cooler. The long grey panels - you feel like an astronaut crossed with a figure skater - are products of multiple levels of technological innovation. Speedo used a NASA lab to measure more than 90 different fabrics in a wind tunnel to find the one with the smallest drag coefficient. It eventually settled...