Word: flips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...beginning was happening," Joseph says. "We built this house together with our bare hands." In the mornings Nereciana would don her black-and-white igitenge (a sort of floral skirt) and rubber flip-flops and head out with Joseph to work the fields. Nereciana, a talkative woman, loved recounting the tales of Bakame, a mythical rabbit who is always playing tricks on humans and other animals. And for Joseph, hunched over, listening to his wife, it seemed that even though life was hard, "this was, for us, a time of great hope...
...flip side of high risk--assuming too little of it--is equally dangerous. That's been clear enough over the past few years to anyone who is mainly in bonds or old-economy value stocks like Philip Morris and Good-year Tire. Quite simply, they were left in the tech dust. Ask Julian Robertson, the famed Tiger Management boss who held fast to his value style until time ran out. Last week Robertson, whose assets had dwindled, to about $6 billion from $21 billion in 1998, gave up and quit. The question is, Is it too late to jump...
...that an origin of life in these conditions may be nearly inevitable, since incredibly improbable events should not occur so quickly. But my skeptical side retorts that good luck in one try proves nothing. I may win the lottery the first time I buy a ticket, and I might flip 10 heads in a row on my first sequence of tosses...
...generation of phones that would let me browse the Web virtually anywhere. After a few minutes of research, I settled on the Motorola StarTac 7860 ($240). I decided to buy it partly because it's the latest in Motorola's venerable line of lightweight (4.4 oz.), pocket-size flip phones. But what really sold me was the fact that this phone could double as a 14.4-bps modem--I could string a cable between it and my laptop and surf the Net or send and receive e-mail on its bigger screen using my normal jquit@well.com account...
...lurk invisible in prime time's institutional dramas. This literate and impeccably executed series, alas, may prove why. From the opening scene of a patients' group session devolving into a shouting match, to the story of a multiple murderer with a Zeus complex, Wonderland all but begs viewers to flip to the comparatively cheery bloodbaths...