Word: dime
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With Woods winning two tournaments this year and briefly reclaiming the top spot, each of golf's Big Three looks primed for the sport's biggest prize, a green jacket at the Masters, which tees off on Thursday in Augusta, Ga. "Listen, there's not a dime's worth of golf difference between any of these guys right now," says Brandel Chamblee, a PGA player and commentator for the Golf Channel. "We didn't want parity at a mediocre level. We have parity at a superstar level. I mean, what else do you want?" Only third-ranked Ernie Els could...
...hard to get much lower-tech than the laboratory of psychologist Sam Putnam at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. The equipment here is strictly five-and-dime--soap bubbles, Halloween masks, noisemakers--but the work Putnam is doing is something else entirely. On any given day, the lab bustles with toddlers who come to play with his toys and be observed while they do so. Some of the children rush at the bubbles, delight at the noise toys, squeal with pleasure when a staff member dons a mask. Others stand back, content to observe. Others...
...students belong to the “Spare Change Guy Fan Club” on thefacebook.com, which pays tribute to Daugherty’s trademark sales pitches, including “Pretty lady, show me a smile,” and “Sister, can you spare a dime...
...Does all this mean you shouldn't have a dime riding on India? Not at all. If you want a sense of how significant the country is becoming, consider this: since December, about 150 of Udwadia's Harvard classmates (out of some 900) have traveled to India to witness the emergence of this economic powerhouse. But don't wade into these waters with a blithe sense that the returns of the past two years are repeatable?or you'll end up battered and fried, alongside a whole lot of Big Fish...
...younger, it's moving on a dime, it's making decisions very quickly, if not instantly, to stay ahead of the curve. I hope it's made me more interesting...