Word: cusp
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...follow suit, but as the number of PDAs on campus grows, that could change. In a worst-case scenario, PDAs, which can increase cell phone bills by up to $50 per month, will become ubiquitous symbols of privilege on campus. In other words, the PDA is on the cusp of becoming must-have, ivory tower “bling,” a nauseating prospect...
...world with no future: the human race has become infertile, and anarchy blankets the globe. Pan's Labyrinth burrows into the past, to Franco's Spain in 1944, and into a dark wonderland of fierce and magical creatures that offers escape to an 11-year-old girl on the cusp of puberty and despair. Each film toys with the implausible but creates a movie world that is both coherent and compelling --a testament to their directors' passion, craft and gigantic nerve...
Then there is Sofia, which has the air of being on the cusp of discovery. (Impress your hipper friends by talking about how you visited after tiring of Prague.) The taxi driver from the airport was surprised to learn that I was American, as were vendors in the fruit market, although everyone under 30, it seemed, spoke English. Road signs in the capital are in Cyrillic, and Old World and communist-era charms abound--men in chapeaux, women with bright red dye jobs--but there are also plenty of skinny young things running around in tight jeans and tall boots...
...year ago, Shawn Sturgill's educational prognosis was grim. He was one of the main subjects of TIME's April 2006 cover story on America's epidemic of high school dropouts, which examined the lives of those who had left school or were on the cusp of leaving in Shelbyville, Ind. When I first met Shawn, 18, most of his friends had already dropped out, and he himself was so far behind on credits that he had to shuttle between regular classes and a credit recovery program that felt a bit like detention. Not only was he was unable...
Standing before Mukesh Mehta’s household adornments (in Montana, mind you, on the cusp of 2006), I gesture to the telltale gold-fringed palanquin and the turbaned figure of the emperor. I note how he is enveloped by a halo. A Mughal durbar, I tell Mukesh. Maybe Jahangir. Perhaps Akbar. But certainly not Aurangzeb—he didn’t go for this artsy-fartsy stuff...