Word: linked
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...near her factory; while she slept, someone broke the lock on her door. The thief took nine hundred yuan [about $130] and Min's mobile phone, the only place where she had stored the numbers of everyone she knew in the city: the ex-colleague who was her only link to her new job, the friends she had made since going out, and the boyfriend who had gone home... With the theft of her phone, the friendships of a year and a half vanished as if they had never been. She was alone again...
...students, the Web site allows for three different “levels” of sharing: group sharing, college sharing, and world sharing. Magliozzi, for one, hopes students will choose to share their information with the world. One of his goals is to use the internet to connect and link different texts and lectures; ideally, students reading about Mankiw’s lecture on marginal utility can click on a link that brings them to a Brown professor’s take...
...make an argument with this anthology for what defines the "new horror." I thought I could make an interesting book around this thesis that the world of horror was being increasingly absorbed into mainstream writing and was absorbing mainstream writing into itself. There were all these writers, like Kelly Link, who seemed to swing back and forth, or who seemed to be in both places at the same time. This really delighted...
...toad may be the first animal whose extinction scientists will link to global warming, but it certainly won't be the last. Last year, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated that if global temperatures increase more than two to three degrees F above current levels - which seems quite possible, given current trends in carbon emissions - up to one-third of the species on Earth could be at risk for extinction. "We're already seeing nature react badly to climate change," says Larry Schweiger, the president of the National Wildlife Federation. "We're changing the rules...
...that you probably found yourself meeting the criteria for internet addiction shouldn’t send you running towards treatment. It should suggest that the very terms of internet addiction could stand to be redefined. Which is good news for all of us, because I have a fun Youtube link...