Word: familiarity
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Commencement season is upon us, when students across the nation make familiar pledges to go forth and change the world. The explosion of social networks on the Internet--Facebook users have affiliated with more than 80,000 causes--has emboldened them to believe their generation will make change. But does new technology make it more or less likely that young people today will commit themselves to do something for others...
...without my newspaper, I often turn to the most e-mailed stories on news websites, which are generally opinion pieces (rather than news stories), from which I cherry-pick arguments or facts that comport with my pre-existing views. Reading this way, I rarely stray from the familiar and soothing...
...movie. There are scenes that play like stretching exercises at the retirement home; there are garrulous passages while Indy translates runic inscriptions; even the title seems a few words too long. It takes about an hour for Crystal Skull to deliver on its promise of chic, robust, familiar entertainment...
...Drifters, reconvened to sing their hits at a pbs oldies concert. They mime their classic choreography--and may cheat on the high notes--but it's a treat just to see them trying. That's the instant movie nostalgia of Crystal Skull. It's got the old airs and familiar faces and works up a commendable sweat. All that's missing is the magic...
With Fit, Miyamoto is abandoning those familiar faces--it's about time, say his critics--and taking gamers in a new direction. Although many people dread weighing themselves, the slight, 137-lb. (62 kg) designer hatched the idea for Wii Fit when he realized he got a kick out of charting his own weight on a piece of paper taped to the wall: "My whole family took an interest. Seeing how that was able to excite the people in my family, I thought, Oh, this is a really neat experience that I'd like to bring to other people...