Word: projected
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...freewheeling it is, the better it can attract committed volunteers who keep adding to its corpus. But over the years, as Wikipedia has added layers of control to bolster accuracy and fairness, it has developed a kind of bureaucracy. "It may be that the bureaucracy is inevitable when a project like this becomes sufficiently important," Chi says. But who wants to participate in a project lousy with bureaucrats...
...neat approach, one that emphasizes how understanding the people closest to you--the father who takes a much younger second wife, the defensive gay brother who comes home with an adopted baby from Vietnam, or your newly contrary teenage daughter--can sometimes feel like an anthropology project...
...looking for help with the mortgage, a movement to make supersize homes cozier is bubbling up. Architect Sarah Susanka, a small-house advocate, is finding that people are interested in making modifications, like lowering ceilings, to create more intimacy. Mathieu Gallois, who came up with the McMansion-splitting project in Australia, hit on the idea while visiting a 4,000-sq.-ft. home and feeling that with everyone in his or her own room, the family had been "atomized" - and that someone should do something about...
...asked him one day why he spent so much time and energy on this project. He rubbed his hands together with glee and said, ‘I love to do work that is of practical significance...
Genetics Professor Frederick M. Ausubel, who will use a Transformative research grant to work on solutions to antibiotic resistance, said that one of the difficulties of conducting high-risk research is that people are reluctant to fund a project if there is no guarantee that the results will be relevant...