Word: existance
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...their way of approaching it, and I have my way of approaching it. But I have tremendous respect for their skills, and in our organization at least, if they don't [respect me], they're polite enough to keep it to themselves. That kind of tension doesn't really exist...
...China's farmers can work their land through 30-year, renewable leases, but they cannot buy or sell it (all land belongs to the state). Regulations do exist governing expropriation, but they are often not followed. Many farmers are increasingly angry with this - particularly when they believe that the land their families have tilled, often for generations, has been taken away without regard for the law. The declaration by the Zhuhai villagers is the latest in a series of such actions that now involve tens of thousands of farmers all over China. While it is too early to describe this...
While animals may possess advanced cognitive abilities like episodic memory, these capabilities only exist to solve a particular problem...
...collection, that summarizes the predicament Millhauser’s whole project must confront. “History” is narrated by a man who gradually “casts off words” due to the dawning realization that they “blur together elements that exist apart, or they break elements into pieces, bind up the world, contract it into hard little pellets of perception.” The fact that the narrator is using words in the first place to tell his story is only addressed in the last paragraph, as a kind of apologetic wave...
...just sitting here in my studio by myself doing these drawings...It’s not like I had to turn my back on people who used to buy my comic books at little specialty stores in order to get my artwork in The New Yorker. The things can exist concurrently and hopefully play off of each other. THC: Is there a reason for your ability to create such interesting female characters?AT: One aspect of it is just my experience growing up. For big chunks of my childhood I was being raised by a single mom who was working...