Word: lets
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...Home could work too. But Sony has got to lighten up and let its users take a bit of control. Open up the platform and understand that people want to feel as if their Home is their castle - not Sony's mall...
...communicate with others. "Self-injurers experience greater physiological arousal in response to stress, show poor ability to tolerate distress, and have greater deficits in social problem-solving skills," Nock explains, meaning that people self-injure to distract themselves from other emotional pain, to counter feelings of numbness or to let people know that they're suffering...
...book's most moving story, "Distant Rain," is done entirely as a simulated collage, with drawings of little scraps of imagined private poetry - the poems that people "never let anyone else read." One night, they come together into a giant ball, which levitates over the city before breaking up and showering back down to earth as a new kind of precipitation. In the morning, everyone discovers a random fragment, containing "various faded words pressed into accidental verses." And to each reader they "whisper something different," touching lives with a "strange feeling of weightlessness...
...applied more thinly, consuming considerably fewer raw materials than regular concrete. (The basic mixture includes cement, stone or other aggregate and water.) Moreover, concrete has some properties that make it intrinsically energy-efficient when used in buildings. It insulates well because it's poured and thus doesn't let in wind and water. Its density also means that it stores heat during the day and releases it at night, making it possible to save on air-conditioning and heating. Architects including Ferrier are playing with such possibilities as they design their new buildings. And the ultra-high-performance concretes...
...been of the way the Bush Administration and the Republican Party have handled power over the past eight years. It's taken about that long for a lot of conservatives to come up to me and say, "Yeah, I know we called you a traitor in 2004, but let's let bygones be bygones...