Word: markers
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...tornado so huge it looked like Satan's wide-tip marker obliterated an entire Kansas town with winds over 200 m.p.h. Days later, when President George W. Bush arrived to dispense hugs and sympathy, he found scarcely a roof still on four walls. Not a leaf left clinging to a tree. Lumber scraps lay strewn like hay behind a boisterous hayride...
...know happened and the things you remember. Ask any college student who has ever woken up on a windowsill in an unknown common room with a court summons for public urination in his pants pocket and the word “douchebag” written in pink permanent marker across his forehead.I can divide the events of my life into those two distinct categories. I know that I won a math bee in fifth grade. I remember hitting the first and only home run of my Little League career against St. Joseph’s at Juniper Park in Middle...
...candles at its base, the sign wavered in the wind. Clusters of two and three students stood together in silence. Slowly they began to line up to sign the board. ?You are in our prayers. We hurt for you. We will remember you forever,' signed one mourner in silver marker. "I'm still really in disbelief," says Stiltner. The shock of the day's shootings sank in, Hess said, as he carried the sign across campus for the vigil. "It hit me," Hess said, "to know that it was in these buildings." The media crews that swarmed campus were also...
...that necessarily a bad thing? Isn’t ultra-efficiency the highest marker of human advancement? Finally, men, women, and children around the world are getting the most out of their days. Even leisure is becoming more efficient: Why watch “Grey’s Anatomy” at 9 p.m. on Thursdays when you can either TiVo it or watch it online when you have more time...
...which is not an efficient way for it to work," says Malhi, chair of psychological medicine at the University of Sydney. While patients' brains over-activated in response to fear, they under-activated for disgust. The researchers believe that what they've found in these impairments is a biological marker of bipolar disorder that could be the makings of a test. "We're excited about this because the potential is huge," says Lagopoulos, "but we have to temper our enthusiasm" until further research can confirm these differences as statistically bullet-proof...