Word: fabricate
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sick, voyeuristic fascination to it--we don't need an exercise in disaster porn. But Columbine is a necessary book. Narrating an event is a way to tame it, to give it a meaning, and the Columbine massacre is an aggressively, catastrophically meaningless event, a rip in the smooth fabric of an otherwise comprehensible world. It's a vacuum that urgently demands to be filled...
...graduate degrees and worked in white-collar Manhattanite jobs from which they did not expect to be booted. They range in age from the 23-year-old fired from his very first job to the 61-year-old garment industry worker who blames the Chinese for putting her fabric company out of business. They have been unemployed for an average of four months and most of them showed up alone. "Who am I going to bring?" asks Erika Garcia, an out-of-work contract lawyer. "My friends still have jobs...
...technology like that can transform the way people see themselves,” Croft says. “Suddenly people can be artists in a very real sense.”At the most recent colloquium, which was held on Tuesday, Jill Peterson, a researcher from RISD, presented a fabric bike lock she designed, which also serves as a GPS social networking device.The colloquia are evidence that artistic creation is thriving in college communities. Croft believes that while some are pessimistic about the vivacity of the arts in society, in fact, people are as creatively inclined as ever. This creativity...
...moment when the button stopped tickling America's fancy. It wasn't during the Cold War: the giant red button was all that kept us from nuclear Armageddon. And in the age of the personal computer, the button was king. Mice, monitors, keyboards - buttons became a part of the fabric of our new, digital life...
...defamation of walls and monuments, racial profiling, and discriminatory layoffs all stem from the ignorance present in our shared community. We must realize that attacks on individual groups are fundamentally divisive and tear at the fabric that holds our community together. These incidents are thus not only an assault on our human dignity, but also an assault on our community as a whole...