Word: planet
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Although no professional bands are yet planned for the event, three Harvard bands have agreed to play: Flubber, Xosha and Daily Planet...
...Defense of Marriage Act, which focused not on keeping heterosexuals married but on keeping homosexuals unmarried. This is a familiar pattern among conservatives. They are readier than liberals to dish out real moral sanction but tend to aim at the easy targets, the people they consider creatures from another planet: homosexuals, inner-city mothers, inner-city fathers. The linchpin of a robust moral system, in contrast, is a willingness to stigmatize people close to home, even your friends--even, in a certain theoretical sense, yourself...
...about the potential for more serious problems. Just last month, at a conference at Montana State University, scientists warned that storms in space--like hurricanes and earthquakes--could have a devastating impact on society. Among other things, a large storm could totally disrupt communications over large swaths of the planet and cause power outages capable of paralyzing major urban centers...
...profit. Coke pockets 30' for every dollar's worth of product it sells outside the U.S. Pepsi earns less than 7', a figure it hasn't been able to improve. This difference is enormous when you consider the sums of money these two companies have been investing across the planet. Coke for instance, is doubling its investment in Russia to $500 million next year. In China it has plunked down another $500 million. This year the company will invest some $1.5 billion worldwide. "You cannot jump-start things in this business. You have to build that infrastructure one step...
...inclined to be hard on himself. "In the first days," he says, "I kept thinking, 'I've ruined my life.' But you only get one. You can't say, 'I've spoiled this one. Can I have another, please?' You feel as though you're a creature from another planet. Because here on earth people walk around and breathe on their own. But where I come from, people are on a hose, and they sit in chairs and they don't stand...