Word: plasticities
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...Before we get started, we have a problem set to finish. So, what happens to investment in the U.S. if a report states that the government deficit for 2008 will be higher than anticipated? 2) On to more serious matters, boxers or briefs? Satin or cotton? Paper or plastic!? 3) Who’s the biggest PILF on campus? You know, Professor I’d Like to Fu… Fire. 4) Did you worry that the new alcohol policies will affect your approval rating? 5) What’s the meaning of life? 6) In your book...
...sold: the North End, authentic or not, was delicious. The tour continued through a wine store and a green grocer before returning to the shops I visited with Giovanna Tognetti the week before—La Salumeria Italiana, Sulmona Meat Market, and Polcari’s Coffee, where plastic barrels of dried legumes lined the floor, glass jars full of licorice root stick teetered precariously, and the whole store smelled like the deepest corner of a spice cabinet. Topor pointed out the same things that Ms. Tognetti had: the “real” Nutella in the glass...
...searches for her name against all other dancers who have participated on the show through the years, she received 24.9% of all searches during the last four weeks. But, as with online interest in other contestants, searchers were most fascinated with her looks. Top Priscilla searches included "Priscilla Presley plastic surgery," "Priscilla Presley facelift" and "Priscilla Presley's face...
Meanwhile, the rest of us wrestled with our choices: do we swear off meat, swap canvas for plastic, ditch the lawn, change the bulbs, wonder if it's too late? "I hope this movement is not a fad," one activist told a TIME reporter after the first Earth Day 38 years ago, "but the signs are not encouraging." On the one hand, less than three months later, President Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency. The air and water got cleaner, DDT was banned, leaded gas phased out, recycling phased in. On the other hand, the world's population has nearly...
...prominence in American culture, I hope at least that future efforts at depicting the industry, on the page and on the screen, will not ignore the risks associated with its procedures, and will take care not to promote entrenched stereotypes and harmful practices. Targeting a book in praise of plastic surgery to children is inherently perverse—so much so that I yearn for the nauseating tales of my own childhood that insisted: “Everyone is special in their...