Word: minding
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...what a "hive mind" - the highly organized honey bee hierarchy - looks like when it's suffering from CCD: "There were usually a few bees, yes, but they were wandering without purpose like survivors of an apocalyse, which they were ... Great lobes of the hive mind had died, and what bits remained had lost any organizing principle. If this was a mind, it was one with advanced Alzheimer's disease...
...whom expressed surprise as well as relief that they might keep their jobs. "Now we have a parent with money, an understanding of the region, and a desire to expand globally," says a Lehman employee in Hong Kong. "I don't know anyone who had this scenario in mind...
...longer a freak; I belonged to an aristocracy of misunderstood brooders and first-rate melancholics. I read Camus, rocked out to the Smashing Pumpkins, dressed in black—the usual clichés. Like all thirteen-year-olds, I was a loser. But in my mind, I was deep and bohemian, a genuine suburban Übermensch...
...said Bill Hees, a parent who also said he worried that controlled choice was prioritizing socioeconomic diversity over an appropriate education for all students. School committee member Patricia M. Nolan ‘80 said the board would definitely keep parents’ suggestions in mind. “I can say it’s highly likely that they’ll be considered,” she said. “And I think the pleas across the board for more information would be the easiest to satisfy.” Marc C. McGovern, another member...
...exercise, particularly because the committee chair, state senator Hollis French, is an Anchorage Democrat who made several seemingly prejudicial statements to the media early on, including that the probe could yield an "October surprise" right before the election. Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton says French has already made up his mind about the governor's guilt and at this point is "just leading people into an ambush...