Word: phenomenons
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Patient zero was Magnolia, a tiny, retro bakery in New York City's West Village, which, in 1996, had some extra batter and made a dozen cupcakes. Soon Magnolia had to institute a limit on cupcakes per customer. Then Sarah Jessica Parker, who lived nearby, put her local phenomenon on Sex and the City, leading tour buses to stop there. At the admittedly delicious Sprinkles in Los Angeles, which Oprah declared her favorite cupcake after getting a box from Barbra Streisand, the line on weekends is more than half an hour long. Which, yes, is longer than it takes...
...also increase blood flow in the periorbital region. Facial analysis is problematic, since there's no way to standardize the skills of human analysts, and nobody can say for certain if cooler liars give up fewer clues than nervous ones. "It's not as simple as a Pinocchio phenomenon," says Frank...
...that absence of proof that is perhaps most damning. Physicists have a tolerance for theory; indeed, unless you were there to witness a phenomenon yourself--the Big Bang, say--it will always be, at some level, hypothetical. But the slow accretion of data and evidence eventually eliminates reasonable doubt. Not so--or at least not yet--with strings...
...International Committee in Support of the Transition (CIAT), which is made up of ambassadors of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and South Africa, warned last week that making claims before votes were counted "threatened public order". "The media relays and amplifies this phenomenon by bombarding the population with figures that are all over the place," said a CIAT statement...
...remarkable thing, the Potter phenomenon. In introducing Rowling, actress Kathy Bates gave the impression that the distinguishing thing about the Potter books is that they have made readers of those who would otherwise have their nose buried in a screen of some kind. But that doesn't seem quite right. Harry Potter appeals to plenty of children - and adults - who love reading books of all kinds. The stories have that crucial ability to be fantastic and believable at the same time, the characters are flesh and blood, and the plotting rich and unexpected. Rowling deserves her fame and wealth...