Word: heaps
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...that prosaic definition masks the discomfort still felt by a minority that had been branded an untouchable class during Japan's samurai era of the 17th century. In those days, the burakumin were social outcasts: the butchers, tanners and waste-handlers who fell to the bottom of the heap in a five-tier caste system. The archaic social structure went the way of the shoguns during Japan's Meiji transformation in the late 19th century. Yet the burakumin still exist on the fringes of this mostly homogenous society, and fight the age-old battles of discrimination. "It's still...
...supposed to be better than what we've seen already? Do we have anything of Mike actually falling into the fire, instead of just yelling about it? And is this why CBS made us change our "Survivor" night this week - just to get us hooked on the slag heap? Perhaps it was merely a cruel network trick to make America admit that there are actually plenty of other nights besides Thursday when they've got absolutely nothing non-vicarious to do on a weeknight. (OK, Leslie Moonves...
...hardly makes a dent, however, in the annual bumper crop of dead computers. Every year an electronic trash heap nearly as tall as Mount Everest is tossed into garbage cans, stashed in garages or forgotten in closets. Some 500 million PCs will be rendered obsolete by 2007 in the U.S. alone--abandoned by users who have upgraded to faster and sexier machines--according to a report by the National Safety Council. Computers are ranked as the nation's fastest-growing category of solid waste by the Environmental Protection Agency...
...sack of potatoes than anything else - the coarsely woven brown bag the skinny Thai corporal is hefting onto the rickety table with a grunt. The sack gapes open and dozens of guns clank out, covering the tabletop, several dropping onto the grimy concrete floor. We stare at the jumbled heap of handguns, which I know from Joe, the arms trader who has brought me, are either Brownings or Smith & Wessons. Some have seen long service, the butts chipped and scored. Joe ignores these, instead picking up a snub-nosed Browning, still shiny with gun oil. In less than a minute...
...writers known for their relentless annotations were Horace Walpole, Charles Darwin, Thomas Macaulay and William Blake. I LOVE BLAKE. [I don't!] But quality that high is rare. We take a book out of the library and read the marginalia, often surly and stupid, of anonymous strangers. THANKS A HEAP! The fun, though, is to respond to them, by which we perpetuate the argument and extend the text. BACK TO HIS THESIS, AT LAST? [you're welcome...