Word: distinctives
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...rights, I Been There Before--the title is the last sentence of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--should seem arrogant, pretentious and convoluted. It involves dozens of characters, five or six distinct plots and more than three dozen "documents" supposedly written by Twain and his interpreters, some of them verging on Freudian exploration of the writer's guilt-ridden subconscious...
...Simpson was outside the terminal walking the family dog while her husband Victor, the Associated Press news editor in Rome, was checking bags and obtaining boarding passes for the couple and their two children for a TWA flight to New York. "Suddenly there was a shattering noise . . . and two distinct machine-gun bursts," recalled Mrs. Simpson, who reports in Rome as a TIME stringer. "And then silence. I rushed in to screams and cries, and saw my husband dripping blood from his hand and my son on the floor, shot in the stomach. They were O.K., but I lost...
Like members of a family, the four basic forces of nature are all distinct personalities, with their separate quirks, abilities and housekeeping chores. Electromagnetism makes it possible for elevators to rise, light bulbs to glow and lightning to snake across the sky. Gravity holds chairs to the floor and planets in their orbital paths. The strong force binds together the protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus. The weak force causes subatomic particles to shoot out of the nuclei of atoms during the radioactive decay of such unstable elements as uranium...
...archive full of Lists (Embarrassing Things That Might Happen to You While Using a Lightsaber) and Reviews of New Food (on blowing bubbles with Skittles gum: "You would have far better luck coaxing a sphere out of chewed-up crayon and oatmeal"). Affiliated with, but separate and distinct from, the quarterly print literary journal McSweeney...
...program grants will allocate money to developing cures in distinct disease areas, and Jennings says that working groups and plans for these disease areas will be finalized this fall...