Word: forthing
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...Back & Forth...
...building to symbolize. He sees the project as a step toward developing what he calls "the aesthetics of sustainability," a new vocabulary of forms for a future in which green buildings will be the norm. "The 19th century was about new kinds of construction," he says. "Steel and so forth. And the 20th century created a language for that. Now architects must develop an aesthetic for our discovery about the fragility of nature." And as they do, one of the places they'll study most closely is this inspired academy--not a temple on a hill but a hill...
...phone calls and the like? No, you're not, says this slim fable-cum-manifesto against multitasking. The author, a business coach, gently ridicules the idea that anyone can concentrate on two things at the same time. What we're really doing, he says, is "switchtasking"--switching back and forth quickly and inefficiently from one task to the next. And when we give people our segmented attention and piecemeal time, says Crenshaw, "we end up damaging relationships." So put down that damn BlackBerry, as it were...
...hard to pinpoint exactly why these animals are so darn cute; maybe it's their small size relative to their fellow primates. Maybe it's their flirty, innocent playfulness. A snow white sifaka putting on a show before a crowd of onlookers, swinging back and forth - it's so toe-curlingly kawaii, as our Japanese traveling companions put it, you could die. Though cuteness alone isn't likely to save the lemurs from the forces that threaten them - hunting, deforestation and habitat destruction - it certainly puts them in a better position than their homelier endangered peers...
...from constituents since the [savings and loan] crisis of the 1980s. I am getting thousands of letters, phone calls, e-mails and faxes. A handful of them support some kind of bailout. But the overwhelming majority is against it." She cites one letter as representative of the bile poured forth against the bailout: "I live on $23,000 a year. Why should I be asked to bail out a bunch of overpaid greedy heads of companies like AIG, Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae? ... If you're going to pass this bill, then it is only right that you the government...