Word: discarder
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...have a confession to make: I'm bi. My family and my close friends have suspected this in recent years but I never felt comfortable talking about it. This intersession I had an intensely personal experience that confirmed my own hesitations. It has taken courage for me to discard many of those values which I once held as good and true, and today I am ready to embrace a new identity, a new me. I'm not ashamed to say it-I'm bicoastal. Here's how it all happened...
...Kenneth Branagh) is a man in a rumpled corduroy jacket with his nose pressed eagerly against the double-glazed windows of fame. A failed novelist, he writes celebrity profiles for magazines and subsists emotionally on such crusts--a bit of gossip, a moment of false intimacy--as the famous discard as they pass...
...with it. It also left the now 56-year-old Michael Eisner, the company's brilliant chief executive, lacking a confidant and a suitable successor. In the past four years, Eisner has entertained a number of pretenders to the throne, notably Michael Ovitz and Jeffrey Katzenberg, only to ultimately discard them--painfully and publicly...
...define the value conferred by a bit of information such as a single letter? Are we aware that we constantly discard gargantuan volumes of information without recognizing their worth? In The User Illusion, a didactic tome employing examples from physics to poker, Danish author Tor Norretranders addresses these questions and explores their relationship to human consciousness within the context of a booming Information...
...that's how I'll cope with turning 20. I can pick and choose what to retain from my teenage days and discard that which feels childish. I can assume the roles of a 20-something-year old for which I feel ready, and delay those in which I don't. With this in mind, celebrating my birthday isn't such a big deal...at least not until next year...