Word: distinctives
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Some people have obstinately wrong ideas about what is multiple and what is unique. A fish or a fruit by an 18th century master like Chardin is thought to be distinct, its presence in the still life making it the only one of its kind. But Nature is a greater mass producer than Culture. The sea is full of sea robins and whiting, all looking the same. The peach tree is laden with identical peaches. So it is with Thiebaud's cakes and pies. He is fascinated by variation within repetition, but he never thinks of repetition as being antipoetic...
Over Father's Day weekend, Cheney strapped on a Holter monitor--basically a portable ECG machine--to produce a 34-hr.-long recording of his heartbeat. The monitor revealed four distinct episodes, each lasting just a second or two, in which the ventricles of his heart beat too fast. The situation is dangerous only if it becomes permanent. "The heart doesn't actually stop," says Dr. Eric Prystowsky, president of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology. "But it beats so fast that no blood can flow through its chambers." Unless a normal rhythm is re-established, death follows...
...Although all three women started out around the same time, the orangutans remain the least studied of the four great apes (there are two distinct species of chimpanzee) that are humankind's closest relatives, sharing some 97% of our DNA. In part that's a matter of numbers?there are thousands of chimpanzees in zoos in the U.S. alone, whereas orangutans barely exceed 100. But there is also a practical problem: chimps and gorillas are both essentially ground-dwelling group animals. Orangutans are solitary and spend most of their time in the high canopy of the rain forest, making even...
...there is a distinct cultural resentment in this nation, which was a worldwide empire when America was a farming colony. Today, America dominates Britain (and the world) not with arms but with economics—McDonalds, Burger King and KFC seem to be more omnipresent in London than in Boston...
...Commission tries to split the baby—perhaps literally—by deciding that embryos merit some respect as “a form of human life,” but not quite so much respect as an adult. A nice compromise, since it leads to no distinct conclusions and satisfies...