Word: rareness
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...supervisor was fired for what a company spokesman insists was a rare breakdown of a solid reporting system. But Shays isn't sold on that. He is trying to determine whether cruise lines are keeping some crimes off the books. "There's a huge incentive to downplay any incident, to sail on," says the centrist Republican. "Is going on a cruise the perfect way to commit the perfect crime...
...planned. He just goes hard, 24/7.”A major leaguer famously once said that he’d “walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.” Captain Morgan Brown, it seems, is the rare individual to have done practically everything but that.How ironic it would be, on the doorstep of bigger dreams, to take an unexpected detour. It wouldn’t be the first time.—Staff writer Alex McPhillips can be reached at rmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...
...part of the market. Jordan Price, a graffiti artist based in Brooklyn, N.Y., better known as Jor One, creates unique designs that sell for as much as $1,500 a pair. Price's streetwise styles, which have been featured in "Sneaker Pimps," a traveling exhibit of rare and vintage shoes, include a pattern of cigars and 40-oz. beer bottles, whose labels read, WE SELL TO MINORS & DRUNKS. While Price, 26, uses a paintbrush, Chris Hui, a high school sophomore in Milwaukee, Wis., has gained a national reputation for applying unusual materials such as carbon fiber to sneakers, an idea...
...Siberia?Genetics also points to an original homeland for the first Americans - or at least it does to some researchers. "Skeletal remains are very rare, but the genetic evidence suggests they came from the Lake Baikal region" of Russia, says anthropologist Ted Goebel of the University of Nevada at Reno, who has worked extensively in that part of southern Siberia. "There is a rich archaeological record there," he says, "beginning about 40,000 years ago." Based on what he and Russian colleagues have found, Goebel speculates that there were two northward migratory pulses, the first between...
...person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down." Taking the thought a step further, to write poetry and then expose it to the scrutiny of your peers and a renowned poet may be to appear with no clothes at all. That takes a rare degree of bravado, talent or self-delusion. Struggling to know which of those qualities he possesses is Larry Campbell, the neurotic young poet hero of Lynn Coady's very funny new novel, Mean Boy (Doubleday Canada; 382 pages), a sharp take on the follies of poets, academia and the small...