Word: embeddedness
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But this abundance of free stuff around the house left a deep impression on my young mind. We never bought notepads; our refrigerator magnets were shaped like Tylenol capsules. I remember my dad had a fascinating white plastic cube with various tiny useful items--pencil sharpener, scissors, exacto-knife--embedded...
The result of this presence of well-crafted scenes in combination with a lack of effective cohesion between different elements of the story is that The Midden is a novel of moments, a collection of dryly humorous off-the-wall encounters between outrageous characters, embedded within a somewhat unsatisfying plot...
Everybody knows that money is a crucial ingredient in a school's success. There is something absurd, and deeply unfair, about a nationwide system of funding that provides the least amount of money to the most impoverished students. But cries of poverty obscure the role of other, equally powerful forces...
Very few books change the course of history: Karl Marx's Das Kapital, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species and Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations come to mind. And then there was Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Published in 1962, it embedded a message about the folly...
TUNE IN: Microsoft's display window offers state-of-the-art Web pages that include embedded audio, 3-D and video clips