Word: fabricate
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...further explanation is needed, of course, to make us understand that this is “bad.” The way these allegations have been painted, it seems that Muslims are the plague of the modern era—the one enemy in a world of crumbling moral fabric and disintegrating Christian ideals—and that Americans might as well resurrect Saddam Hussein and place him in the White House if they are willing to elect a “Muslim” from Illinois with the middle name “Hussein...
News Flash: Thaksin Shinawatra, the former Prime Minister of Thailand who was ousted in a military coup last September, is forming a new party. For months, the 57-year-old billionaire had promised not to return to the political arena for fear of further rending the delicate fabric of Thai democracy. But in an interview with TIME in Tokyo last week, he made a bold pronouncement. "My new party will be called the Enjoy Life Party," declared Thaksin, who in 2005 commanded the largest-ever electoral mandate in Thai history with his old party, Thai Rak Thai, or Thais Love...
...Simon evokes a world very much like the viewers' own and entices them into confronting their own feelings. Broadway Bound is the work of a master craftsman, at once literary and heartfelt, shaped with becoming modesty. It is unmistakably urban and Jewish American in its rhythms, its idiom, its fabric of detail. In Simon's first two decades as a playwright, that ethnic quality frequently encumbered his attempts to evoke a more general view of the human condition. This time he fully succeeds. In a decade already much enriched by Brighton Beach and Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound is the best...
Using items of clothing as mobile message boards is a ubiquitous form of expression. So how can you stand out from the crowd? Try getting illuminated. Philips Research's Lumalive combines red, green and blue LED pixels to form an array of colors beneath any fabric's surface. The LEDs are housed in a flat plastic sheath, which is connected to a control driver containing the battery and a playlist of preprogrammed images. SMS texts can be sent to a GSM receiver enabling a variety of new messages. (The Lumalive parts are easily removed for laundering.) London-based industrial designer...
...racism. These liberals cannot conceive of a situation in which such actions are a symbol of a healthier democracy, one whose citizens have somewhat longer leashes, and where every little piece of friction doesn’t ignite into a fire. Where, in short, the social fabric isn’t stretching thin...