Word: detritus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bouquet of roses and some dog food. Obara would later say he had preserved it with the hope that, one day, science would enable him to "reanimate my loving pet into a clone dog." Strange as it was, the dog fits a pattern Obara had of hoarding personal detritus. There were stacks of old car batteries, trashed TV sets, receipts, journals and personal tape recordings dating back to the 1970s. The biggest haul comprised more than 200 videotapes showing dozens of apparently unconscious women being assaulted by Obara, who, in many of the tapes according to a police source, wears...
...people. I have been both. I follow the Bush schedule now, and go to bed as a rule between 10 and 11, in order to rise around dawn, to savor the blueish, pristine privacy of that hour, just coming out of sleep. There is still some of the drifting detritus of the unconscious, but the mind is clear and calm...
...result of chronic high blood pressure, high cholesterol or the deleterious effects of smoking. The body tries to repair the damage, and a kind of internal scab is formed. Years go by, and the scab develops into a fatty deposit, filled with cholesterol, proteins and bits of cellular detritus. Sometimes the plaque is quite stable, and nothing much happens. Other times, for reasons that are still unclear, it becomes inflamed and prone to rupture. If the plaque breaks open, a clot forms, choking off the supply of blood. If the interruption lasts long enough, a heart attack ensues...
...wallet. The wallet, where strangers' business cards go to be forgotten, where 10,000-lire bills from a three-year-old Italian vacation retire, where 1997 restaurant receipts and 1994 family snapshots dwell. Where it takes 10 minutes not to find what you're looking for amid the detritus stuffed over the years into that labyrinth of folds and pockets. And where, occasionally, you come across a long-lost $50 bill. But you can bet some high-tech smarty-pants is close to hatching the archefficient Hip Pilot, the virtual wallet, the transformation of all that comforting confusion into...
...Mills says he has 30 people, including 10 Ph.D.s, working full-time to develop plasma cells, surface coatings and a media storage materials--all from the detritus of the hydrogen-shrinking, energy-emitting process...