Word: nest
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Your daughter just left for college. How's the empty nest? I went right on the road again. I'm not gonna sit around and feel terrible. The dog isn't doing too well...
...direct ancestors of modern birds, both Chiappe and Norell argue that the birds' forebears could just as easily have been troodontids like Mei long or even oviraptors, another related type of dinosaur. (Several years ago in Mongolia, Norell and colleagues unearthed a fossil oviraptor sitting on its egg-filled nest.) And then there's also the open question of how flight evolved. Mei long, says Chiappe, was clearly sleeping on the ground. But if flight began as flying-squirrel-like glides out of trees, he wonders, "wouldn't it have been safer resting in a tree...
...flare only to disappear. Whatever happened to Latham's Lifelong Learning Accounts, a national insurance scheme to provide individual choice in education? There's been no progress on the ownership agenda Latham once trumpeted. A couple of years ago, says a Labor colleague, "he was into matched savings accounts, nest egg accounts, employee share ownership and corporate social responsibility. And where has all that gone? Nowhere." Prolific Latham can also appear flaky and insincere, with some of the weaknesses of an autodidact...
...just the superrich who are spending like drunken sailors. According to Marquis Jet CEO Bill Allard, his clientele extends beyond athletes and entertainers. "We have people in their 20s up into their 80s. We have people who haven't necessarily built up their nest eggs, and then we've got billionaires," he says. "When you look at the growth in luxury brands, first you have to look at the economy, and obviously it has really revived over the last year. But there is a premium in terms of quality of life. People are saying 'I've worked hard...
...helps with homework, reads bedtime stories and spends endless hours chauffeuring her three kids, ages 13, 10 and 6. But she does acknowledge certain aberrations. In her current act, the comedian jokes that one of the videos they all watch together is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. "Against that backdrop," she says, "Mom looks pretty good...