Word: milling
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...John Edwards lived the American Dream; he rose from poverty in a tiny Carolina mill town to become the first person in his family to attend college. In his America, hard work was rewarded and opportunity was there for those who wanted it. But things have changed; today the textile mills of the South are gone, outsourced to Asia, and replaced on the landscape by Wal-Mart Supercenters—stores that sell second-rate merchandise and treat their employees like cattle, yet remain in business anyway because so many Americans can’t afford to shop anywhere else...
...message is so streamlined that Edwards hardly talks about himself - his time as a trial lawyer or his years in the U.S. Senate or even his experiences as the 2004 Vice Presidential candidate. The only experience he talks about is his childhood as the son of a poor mill worker who had to borrow money to take him home from the hospital. "I come from a family where people worked in the mills. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education, she came from a family of sharecroppers, she worked hard all of her life. I loved her dearly," Edwards said...
...hours since a lone attacker assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the rumor mill has again been working overtime. In Karachi, amid reports of rioting and sabotage, stories circulated that the city's water supply had been poisoned and people were afraid to drink it. There were also the conflicting accounts of how Bhutto died - from bullet wounds or from a bomb blast that followed or from fracturing her skull against her car's sun-roof as the assailant blew himself up. In the confusion of reports, many Pakistanis are pointing the finger of blame at President Pervez Musharraf...
...says so, and if you don’t agree, NaS will eat you alive. No, seriously. He’s crazy. 4. You—If Mims can sell a mill (digitally, anyway) saying nothing on the track, I’ve got to point the finger your way, because I know I didn’t buy that shit. On the bright side though, you’ve still got your health. Am I right? 3. 50 Cent—He made a name for himself by being one of the hardest men in the game...
...patients into objects of detached scientific study, always emphasizing their humanity and his own emotional investment in their cases.The essays are filled with easily understandable background scientific information as well as fascinating anecdotes about writers, philosophers, musicians, and composers. It might strike you to learn that John Stuart Mill, for example, turned to music to help ease his chronic depression, or that Ravel, Stravinsky, and Berlioz all composed original music in their dreams. Sacks also includes anecdotes about his family, childhood, and personal love of music throughout the book. His own “musicophilia” is always apparent...