Word: preferring
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...giant sculpture, Cosmos (2001), by contemporary French artist Boris Achour. Made of dyed resin, the cartoonish noggin with protruding nose rotates in space while humming a Brazilian lambada; the sound evokes an artist contentedly at work and fills the lively, labyrinthine exhibit with creative energy. Other artists prefer to turn their heads, well, on their heads. Sébastien Leclerc's 17th century engravings representing a range of emotions face off with an interactive portion of the exhibit in which children can assemble magnetic eyes, ears, noses and mouths on a wall to create faces that make Picasso's Femme...
...Xanana has said he would rather be a pumpkin farmer than President. Do you long for a quieter life? I wouldn't join him in pumpkin farming. I'd prefer to write a bestseller. I have been asked to write about my life, but my inclination would be for a book of my reflections on the world's troubles. I'd write it somewhere in the hills above Dili...
...1960s and 1970s may be the only decades in human history—at Harvard, anyway—where ugly buildings were somehow desirable. All over campus, starkly geometric concrete slabs were erected like tombstones, housing students and offices, and raising the ire of those who prefer serene beauty to hideousness for diversity’s sake. We are not worried that the University will repeat the same mistakes, but after the presentation of sketches for Allston’s first new building—a science complex—students cannot help but wonder if the University will make...
...blogs also prefer their guests to engage in conversations. So when Pelosi posted on Daily Kos and then didn?t respond to any of the hundreds of comments users made in response - instead returning to her day job of leading the 201 Democrats in House - one Daily Kos user accused her of "hit and run diaries," while another griped: "Daily Kos is not your personal press release piggybank." The next day, she returned to the blog to try to explain herself. "I don?t have the kind of schedule that allows me to respond to every comment," Pelosi wrote...
...almost certainly, like cancer, many diseases with many distinct causes. It's well known that there's a wide range in the severity of symptoms - from profound disability to milder forms like Asperger syndrome, in which intellectual ability is generally high but social awareness is low. Indeed, doctors now prefer the term Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD). But scientists suspect there are also distinct subtypes, including an early-onset type and a regressive type that can strike as late...