Word: instantness
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...maybe the discrepancy between these two most common fears is the concern we have about discussing our weaknesses with others. As e-mail, text and instant messaging replace our face-to-face chats, perhaps it's become easier to disconnect. We're more comfortable talking with a non-judgmental search engine about our problems, or maybe we're simply afraid of what our fears reveal about ourselves, that's #173 in the list also known as Phobophobia, "fear of fear...
...Maybe you're really busy. Maybe you don't have much to say. Or maybe you're just lazy. Not a problem. This free service works by letting you broadcast a group text message to your friends' mobile phones from either your own phone, an instant message or an online form at twitter.com. All your notes are then stored and displayed on your personal profile page on the site, which includes links to your friends' Twitter pages, a thumbnail picture of your choice, and a short bio. You can even send text updates directly to your MySpace page. Just remember...
...Jolie had not whisked him from the orphanage to instant fame, Pax Thien most likely would have ended up being adopted by another, probably foreign, family, because of the intense overseas demand. "At present, there are more [foreign] requests for adoptions than there are eligible children for adoptions," says Vu Duc Long, head of Vietnam's International Adoption Department, which is part of the Ministry of Justice. "There is more demand than supply." Last year, 163 U.S. parents adopted Vietnamese children, making Vietnam the 14th most popular adoption source. (China is number 1 with more than 6,000 U.S. adoptions...
...Then al-Qaeda destroyed the World Trade Center. New York City's worst catastrophe was Giuliani's finest hour, and the worldwide acclaim he received gave his start-up company instant momentum. Firms lined up to buy the advice, credibility and connections of a man who had been knighted (honorary) by the Queen of England, hailed as "Rudy the Rock" by the President of France and chosen as TIME's Person of the Year...
...Officers took report of an individual in Weld Hall who received a suspicious instant message. The reporting individual did not respond to the message...