Word: phenomenonal
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...Internet, there was this sense that cities were emptying out and the Internet was going to increase that because everybody was going to live in their ranch in Montana and telecommute and all this kind of stuff, and exactly the opposite has happened. And it's a global phenomenon. [Cities] are going to be increasingly central, maybe more important than they ever were. And the suburban trend of everyone kind of moving out there and sitting around watching television hasn't happened nearly as much as we thought it was going...
...things make this kind of innovation possible, one obvious and one not. The obvious one is--say it with me--the Internet. The other one, the surprising one, is a curious phenomenon you could call intellectual altruism. It turns out that given the opportunity, people will donate their time and brainpower to make the world better. There's an online encyclopedia called Wikipedia written entirely by anonymous experts donating their expertise. It has the unevenness you'd expect from anything that's user-created and user-edited, but it's still the most useful reference resource anywhere...
Once each tennis season, a phenomenon occurs where teams from the north are forced make the transition out of their comfort zone of indoor tennis to the completely different game of outdoor tennis...
...writers soon picked it up, and in both English and German—as in a number of other languages, Hebrew included—the term refers to a programmatic political, social and cultural agenda against Jews. The added element of racial hatred differentiates anti-Semitism from the older phenomenon of religious bigotry known as anti-Judaism. The practices and policies that lead to genocide, pogroms, lynching, and the systematic exclusion of Jews from civil society simply because they are Jews are indisputable examples of anti-Semitism. The recent kidnapping, torture, and murder of Ilan Halimi in France...
...think they understand Islam through the sound byte culture we’ve got,” Rahman says. He recalls an interfaith discussion group about the Danish cartoon controversy in which some Harvard students asserted confidently that the Muslim theology against representing the prophet Muhammad is a new phenomenon. “They were trying to tell Muslims—me, other Muslim students—what we believe,” he says. “It’s really inappropriate for someone with a cursory understanding of Islam to tell them what they believe...