Word: organism
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...even though their employers were matching their contributions. Free money, and only 36% took it! But when participants were automatically signed up for the same plan but given the chance to opt out, 86% of them stuck with it. Scholars have found similar status-quo results with organ donations. If we have to sign up, very few of us become organ donors. If we have to opt out, most of us remain organ donors. Similarly, when our electronic gadgets come with the energy-saving auto-power-down function enabled, we're cool with that; if we have to enable...
...stick with? What are your upcoming ambitions? Certainly I'm going to stick with it for as long as we continue to do it. After that I think I can just lie down. I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions...
...Master Jay M. Harris, who both wrote that Shaker had died. In fact, College spokesman Jeff Neal later clarified that those e-mails were inaccurate, and that though Shaker would not make a meaningful recovery, she was being kept physically alive in order to allow her to be an organ donor. She was officially pronounced dead later Wednesday evening...
...both wrote that Shaker had died. In fact, College spokesman Jeff Neal later clarified that those e-mails were inaccurate, and that though Shaker was brain-dead and will not make a meaningful recovery, she is still being kept physically alive in order to allow her to be an organ donor. Below is a portion of a statement sent by Neal late Wednesday night...
...Brown down, because his writing isn't very deft. He introduces new characters with a kind of electric breathlessness that borders on the inadvertently hilarious ("Newly hired security guard Alfonso Nuñez carefully studied the male visitor now approaching his checkpoint ..."). And the unfortunate sentence "His massive sex organ bore the tattooed symbols of his destiny" should itself be forcibly tattooed on Brown's massive sex organ. Worse, Brown's scholarship reads like the work of a man who believes what he reads in Wikipedia. In particular, the book suffers from an ill-advised fling with something called noetic...