Word: instrumentalized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...advances. Pause the film; discuss how she deserves her loneliness after pulling that football shit so many times with Charlie. Two shots if an image of Schroeder and Lucy hooking up crosses your mind. 4. Every time Schroeder’s piano produces the sound of some absent instrument. Four shots if it sounds like a full jazz quartet. 5. Every time someone makes fun of Pigpen’s appearance; ponder why they keep picking on the kid that can’t afford soap. 6. Whenever you feel Charles Schultz gets too preachy in the script. 7. Every...
...represent “real” hip-hop that stretches back to, well, their roots. This camp points to the old-school, I’m-the-best-on-the-mic lyrics of Black Thought, and the influence of jazz, deep soul, and even blues on their live-instrument grooves, which they use instead of studio-crafted beats...
...still happens in mail rooms and airports: a suspicious unidentified substance turns up, and activity freezes for hours until a haz-mat team can make a safety assessment. But Ahura Corp.'s FirstDefender--a handheld instrument that recognizes thousands of chemicals--can give cops and firefighters an immediate analysis of just about any substance...
FirstDefenders have already been used in the post-Katrina cleanup to identify sludge and in law-enforcement and terrorism investigations. They have even shown up on the television show CSI. The instrument could also soon test for counterfeit pharmaceuticals that might otherwise be hard to detect. "It's another eye you can use to see the material around you," says Vakhshoori, "like Superman looking right through a wall...
Turkey day might be over, but the list of thanks goes on. I’ve left out a few important ones—late night Felipe’s and that man who plays the weird string instrument outside of The Coop, for example—but mostly, I’m just thankful that I didn’t transfer to Yale...