Word: mint
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...coin. It's weighty stuff, nearly twice the heft of an American quarter, and six times as valuable. It's got a gilt-colored exterior and a serene-looking Queen Elizabeth II on the face. It's a thick coin, about three stacked quarters high, and the British Royal Mint has dressed up the edge with fancy-looking Latin inscriptions ("Spend me wisely," they seem to say). The pound feels like real money. It feels great...
...examples of Watts's subversion of three consumerist and capitalist systems: the bureaucratic system in his attempt to patent the word "pop" and his collection of all "pop"-related patents, the postal system in his endeavor to circulate his own stamps and the monetary system in his attempt to mint his own mock currency. Hastily labeled as subtle critiques of the privileged class's control of aesthetic standards, these pieces are significant for their wit, whimsy, and delightful irreverence...
Thinking of a career in public relations? Well, you might be tempted by the prospect of making a mint advising Colorado's Jefferson County on how best not to anger the citizens they are supposed to serve...
...idea of a long novel about horses and horse racing has all the appeal of an afternoon at a seedy OTB outpost, read on. For Jane Smiley's Horse Heaven (Knopf; 561 pages; $26) turns out to go down quite easily--more like a pitcher of mint juleps at the Kentucky Derby. Smiley, who has already given us an epic about Greenland, an academic comedy set in the Midwest and historical fiction about abolition, has as great a range and as much intellectual curiosity as any novelist writing today. In her latest book, she takes on a fresh topic...
...There's a lot a stake apart from pride. Celera and its investors are looking to make a mint from the project(and were rewarded Thursday with a 25 percent jump in the company's stock price); the public scientists, meanwhile, are anxious to preserve their funding. And that might explain in part why the members of the Human Genome Project, which is funded by National Institutes of Health, are warning that exuberance over the most recent announcement may be misplaced. The federal scientists have long taken issue with Celera's techniques, saying that the public project is taking...