Word: outerness
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...tsunami that destroyed thousands of lives from Sumatra to Somalia engendered an instant, near-universal outpouring of concern, shared grief and charitable giving. Ronald Reagan once startled the U.N. by suggesting in a speech that humanity would unite and forget its petty divisions if we were attacked from outer space. This elicited widespread head scratching, but the point was unassailable: external threats do exactly that--not little green men but forces closer to home, forces we often assume we have tamed...
...call her "inner teen." Now that she has taken over the reins at all of parent company Viacom's vast, fast-growing cable operations, including MTV, MTV2, VH-1, CMT, Nickelodeon, TV Land and Comedy Central, you might think she would need to get more in tune with her outer adult. But being responsible for the crown jewel of Sumner Redstone's empire--generating nearly $3 billion in profits this year alone and reaching 400 million viewers in 164 countries--has done little to dull McGrath's rebellious spirit or passion for "driving creativity," as she puts it. Even with...
...Burt Rutan has opened the door to relatively cheap travel to outer space. His creativity exemplifies the blaze of the American spirit...
...some serious new intonations. I’m not exactly sure where it began, but at least since the Undergraduate Council termbill tax hike last year, it seems that I have come to define myself and those around me in a new dimension: as opt-inners or opt-outers. It’s unclear exactly what each affiliation means, but I’m fairly certain that my parents would want me to be an opt-inner and girls would be more attracted to me if I were an opt-outer. I had a recent conversation with a Teaching Fellow...
...most likely location of the telescope is Las Campanas, Chile, where the Magellan telescopes are already located and the Carnegie Observatories have worked for 20 years. Chile’s high altitude and dry weather make it one of the better locations from which to observe outer space, Alcock said...