Word: fed
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...starving children of Africa and Asia were kin to her. The photos of Audrey with the Somalian children show a woman nearly as thin as they. It's anorexia as empathy - as if she didn't want to embarrass the starving children she met by looking too well-fed...
...Rotterdam, another is discharging steel products in Tanzania, while yet another is loading methanol in Malaysia. Port operator Hutchison Whampoa has an equally impressive system to help run its Hong Kong port. Incoming ships send data on their cargoes to Hutchison's operations center onshore. That information then gets fed through computers that optimize the loading and unloading. Hutchison has spread the technology. With 44 ports in 22 countries, including Panama, Germany and Egypt, it is now the world's largest port operator. Hong Kong outfits "are exporting expertise and management to other countries," says John Meredith, group managing director...
...would pick up some raisins or sunflower seeds in order to place them on a tray. At that point, the same neurons started buzzing again, in just the same pattern. The scientists couldn't explain it; they thought that perhaps the monkeys were subtly moving in anticipation of being fed. Through a series of experiments, however, they finally established that the neurons started firing whenever the monkeys saw a person grasp an object. It was as if the monkeys were mentally mirroring the action they observed...
...especially Harvard society, where list-servers, text messaging, and online lectures already govern our hours. Soon, we will live in a Harvard that seems possible only because of the iPhone and its unified marvels. Let us ask ourselves if too many hours haven’t already been fed to the idol of Facebook in place of hearty dinners with friends. How many much-needed moments of solitude are drowned out by iTunes, or conversations are shattered by shrill ring tones? We should, of course, buy and enjoy our armadas of gadgetry, but not forget that they all come with...
...authors' views on the war in Iraq contradicted the notion that "You" or "We" were most important in 2006. The discussion was about the war, but the issues raised were about our society. Was there a journalistic failure as the country approached the invasion in 2003? I was certainly fed up with all the pro-war propaganda in the news. But more worrying, it was simply not possible to argue against the war at the time. One was either "with us or against us." Intelligent discussion was pre-empted. So the issue is not about journalism and the courage...