Word: mottoes
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Archos' current motto is "On The Go" but it should be "For Tech's Sake." Everything the French firm creates seems to be more proof of concept than mass market gadget. It was among the first to launch a hard-drive based MP3 player, and it beat everyone to market with portable video. Now it promises a mobile digital video recorder, that is, a TiVo-and TV-that you can unplug and take with...
...fundamentalists, he wrote, "are quite entitled, as a secular matter, to have whatever scientific evidence there may be against evolution presented in their schools." That line of argument--an emphasis on weaknesses and gaps in evolution--is at the heart of the intelligent-design movement, which has as its motto "Teach the controversy." "You have to hand it to the creationists. They have evolved," jokes Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, Calif., which monitors attacks on the teaching of evolution...
...strike into North Vietnam in 1964, he was captured and imprisoned the following year at the infamous "Hanoi Hilton," where he was brutalized repeatedly over seven-and-a-half years and held in solitary confinement for four. Stockdale inspired fellow POWs, including the future Senator John McCain, with his motto "Unity Over Self" and his remarkable defiance?he disfigured his face to ensure he would not be used in a propaganda film?which according to his citation led the North Vietnamese to reduce their use of torture, deeming it ineffective...
...captured and imprisoned the following year at the infamous "Hanoi Hilton." As the senior officer, he was singled out by captors, who brutalized him repeatedly over 71/2 years and held him in solitary confinement for four years. Inspiring fellow POWS, including Senator John McCain, with the motto Unity over Self, he disfigured his face to ensure he would not be used in a propaganda film, slit his wrists to show he would rather die than submit and created a secret POW communications system. According to his citation, his defiance led the North Vietnamese to reduce their use of torture, deciding...
...Busch. Aside from his sardonic tone to describe our town—one would think that a writer for such a publication would think of something more witty than the easy target “Dixfield”—he egregiously misquoted our town’s motto. Upon entering Dixfield, drivers are greeted with signs reading “The Only One,” not “It’s the only one,” as Busch wrote. This seemingly slight error reads as carelessness on the part of the writer...