Word: particularity
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...fellow with digital utensils. Peg's neighbors, naturally skeptical of having a monster next door, soon realize that Edward's handicap is also an asset: his scissorhands can sculpt trees into topiary, reshape poodles into dog-show winners and fashion chic hairdos for the ladies. One woman in particular, the vampish Joyce, gets kinda kinky over this man in black with the super-long fingernails, and has a vigorous erotic go at Edward. But his devotion is focused on Peg's teenage daughter Kim, who is both scared of the new boarder and preoccupied with her loutish boyfriend...
...basic questions," but pollster George Gallup has dubbed us "a nation of biblical illiterates." Only half of U.S. adults know the title of even one Gospel. Most can't name the Bible's first book. The trend extends even to Evangelicals, only 44% of whose teens could identify a particular quote as coming from the Sermon on the Mount...
...liqueurs has soared, with almost 12 million cases imported in 2006, an increase of 5 million cases since 1995, says Frank Walters, senior vice president of research at M. Shanken Communications, which publishes the authoritative trade magazine Impact. David Henkes, from market-trends company Technomic, says affluent boomers in particular are drawn to "the perceived status symbol of liqueurs and are shifting their spending toward the higher-priced products." But what's really driving the category, says Walters, are younger drinkers. They were first targeted by German producer Jägermeister, whose marketing team hired young women to stage promotional events...
...difference from their own lives or the similarity to the Tudors' situation that Gregory's fans find compelling? Though it's generally considered a period in which women were repressed, Beem--whose book The Lioness Roared focuses on female rule in English history--feels the Tudor era is of particular interest to women in positions of influence. In terms of being a female in a boys' club, Elizabeth was way ahead of her time. "She's the model of female rule in a male-dominated society," Beem says. "Elizabeth was the master of taking female traits and turning them into...
...more important question remains: Who gets to make a decision about whether mosquitoes should be released? It should not be the decision of the just the particular scientist; it should be a joint decision. Mosquitoes will cross national borders, so decisions should include a wide range of participants. We will need an international panel of scientists, policy makers, and perhaps ethicists to weigh evidence on this issue. That body (or a framework for assembling such a body) should be established now, so that if a better technology becomes available, no time is wasted in gathering the right people. I imagine...