Word: figuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It can be great. You can think them through, mull them over, with no snotty kid pointing out that they had in fact figured it out light-years ago. What took you so long? However, babbling with a pal can also be the way to enlightenment.
The flat, parched plains of Sudan seem to run on endlessly, right over the horizon. Outside the few towns, there are no roads, no telephones, no electricity. The country is a vast emptiness of almost 1 million sq. mi.; yet it is home to just 28.5 million people, and the...
The poet Richard Wilbur once visited a poetry class that I was in, and he told a girl who had figured out a line of his, "It's nice to have someone catch what you're throwing."
Criminologist JOHN HAGEDORN of the University of Illinois at Chicago fully expected his new study on the inner-city drug trade would provoke debate. The main contention, based on extensive research in two poor Milwaukee neighborhoods, is that dealers should be regarded as "innovative" and "entrepreneurial" and that their "work...
Buzzed from java, but hate the bland taste of decaf? One day a full-flavored brew minus the caffeine could fill your mug. Scientists have figured out how to grow coffee plants that appear to lack the "caffeine gene." The leaves have negligible caffeine. Researchers will know about the beans...