Word: playful
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...when to dump a stock, an ability to bake the perfect cake. Larry Wood's forte is winning the New Yorker's Caption Contest, in which readers are invited to submit the perfect quip to accompany the magazine's back-page cartoon. At least 5,000 would-be wordsmiths play the contest each week; of those, three entries are selected by the magazine as finalists, and the winner is chosen in an online vote. On June 1, Wood, a 46-year-old attorney from Chicago, found out he'd captured the weekly contest for a record third time. (Another caption...
...squads themselves were a picture of contrasts. The Iranians have been long considered one of Asia's more talented and enigmatic outfits, a team that likes to play an attractive and skillful game of neat touches and quick passing. They boast a number of flashy stars who ply their trade in some of Europe's elite football leagues. In the past, Iran's mullahs have issued fatwas chastising national team players for growing their hair long. Still, there were plenty of flowing locks on Iranian heads in Pyongyang; the team commands such adulation from the country's football faithful that...
Some people, like Gandy, take these courses for therapeutic, rather than practical, reasons. "It's really nice to have someplace to go to forget about all that other stuff," says Gandy, referring to her layoff and search for another full-time job. Others play tunes for the extra income. Tony Colvin, who lives in Aurora, Colo., lost his job at a Dow Jones pressman last August. "Deejaying was a pipe dream," says Colvin, 44. "But once I got out of Dow Jones, I really wanted to give it a go." He bought $5,000 worth of equipment, and spent another...
...have an extraordinary role to play in our future. As you pursue your private passions, I hope you will also develop the passion and the voice to help the world in ways both large and small,” Chu said. “Nothing will give you greater satisfaction...
...history of the Web followed a similar pattern. A platform originally designed to help scholars share academic documents, it now lets you watch television shows, play poker with strangers around the world, publish your own newspaper, rediscover your high school girlfriend - and, yes, tell the world what you had for breakfast. Twitter serves as the best poster child for this new model of social creativity in part because these innovations have flowered at such breathtaking speed and in part because the platform is so simple. It's as if Twitter's creators dared us to do something interesting by giving...