Word: phenomenons
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...real, this time. What issue should the Arts Task Force have addressed in its report? 1. Catching that pesky Hamburglar 2. The impact that the Rick Roll at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will have on the future of Rick Rolling, since this is definitive proof that the phenomenon has gone too mainstream for many purists. 3. Is Stephen Greenblatt's lime-green ski vest a work...
...recent medical conference in Chicago, a team of radiologists from Nationwide Children's Hospital presented intriguing X-ray evidence of a psychological phenomenon - what they believed was a new form of self-injury among teens and adolescents. Eleven out of 505 patients whom the team had treated in more than a decade had inserted objects - from chunks of crayons to unfolded paper clips - under their skin in a behavior the Nationwide team labeled "self-embedding...
...from Italy," etc. When you ask a youngster what she dreams of being, she will say, "I want to be a nurse, so I can go abroad." The outflow of Filipino workers is about supply and demand. It is about globalization and economic growth. I just hope that this phenomenon is temporary and our country does not find it has been forced to destroy the fabric of family life. Lisa Crisostomo, Rillaar, Belgium...
...recession when your neighbor loses his job," Harry Truman once quipped. "It's a depression when you lose yours." What Reich and Morici seemed to be groping for - other than media exposure (mission accomplished!) - was a way to express that the current downturn may be a more serious phenomenon than other recessions of the post-World War II era. (See pictures of the recession...
...Lampoon in 1973, Downey joined the writing team at SNL in its second season and has continued writing for the show on and off throughout the intervening years, holding the head writer position in the 1980s. Downey says that at its inception, the live comedy show became a phenomenon because no one had ever done anything like it before. “Doing the show for the first five seasons was a kind of otherworldly experience,” he says. “The show was so hot, way more than it deserved to be. It?...