Word: inventive
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...thrill prom queens. Canadians cannot decide whether to imitate American energy or British reserve. Germans are dogmatic and ironic by turns; and the men snore in bed, but only, as one of them explains, "to protect their women from wild animals." As for the French, who didn't invent love but certainly know how to market it, they negotiate their affairs with a roue's smile and a fatalist's shrug. C'est l'amour...
Theroux, always adept at following literary form, sticks to the basic rules of science fiction. The first is never invent the future, just extrapolate the present. The second: the hardware and social order should always be more impressive than the quality of life. O-Zone's projection of industrial society as a spreading toxic stain is not farfetched. Neither is its assumption of a self-sealed managerial elite, the establishment of airport- like security in the streets or even the possibility of renewal...
...world became aware that a new era under the sea was dawning in 1954, when National Geographic published an article titled "Fish Men Discover a 2,200-year-old Greek Ship." The author was a Frenchman named Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who in 1943 had helped to invent the Aqualung--the precursor of self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba)--and used it to excavate a vessel at the bottom of the Mediterranean near the island of Grand Congloue. "That opened the door to underwater exploration for the modern day," says Wilbur Garrett, editor of National Geographic, the venerable publication...
...mechanism like that attributed to the art-gene has not been described before," Haseltine said. In fact, the researchers, who all work at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, had to invent a whole new terminology for it. The name art-gene is actually short for Anti-Repression of Translation gene...
...tendency to classify or stereotype. My faith compels me to hold to this value and worth of persons especially in the most complex and controversial of situations. From a Catholic point of view, persons are not good or bad because they are homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual or whatever classification people invent. A person's sexual orientation is not the key to their value. The key is God's love for them and their capacity to share that love. Sexual morality has to do with how we understand, accept and direct our love...