Word: readerly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Europe. And Taiwan companies continue to show an ability to innovate. For example, Optoma, a leading maker of digital projectors, recently created the world's smallest projector, the Pico PK101. Delta Electronics, a supplier of power adapters, is coming out next year with a full-color e-book reader that is thinner and lighter than Amazon's Kindle and plays video...
...Instead he became a hospital inmate: he caught typhoid at age 10 and spent three months well fed in a well-heated hospital. The hospital also had a well-stocked library. It was there that he read his first lines of Shakespeare and began a lifetime as a devoted reader...
...Cronkite Americans came to know, though, was not a pontificator but an even-keeled news reporter and reader. After serving as a war correspondent in World War Two and working for United Press in Europe after the war (reporting from Nuremberg and Moscow), he returned to the States and joined CBS' fledgling TV news operation. Following an ill-fated stint as a morning-show host, he became a fixture of CBS political coverage and began hosting the evening news...
...find his manhood. Literally. The family jewels have gone missing and been replaced by what girls have. Being a modern lad, he doesn't go to the doctor but rather documents his feelings about this development in an online diary, www.zack16.com, complete with video and reader comments. Each day he discovers more and more about what it's like to be female, and sure enough, after about a week and a half - or three videos - he gets a visit from Aunt Flo. You know, the monthly one - used to go by the name the Curse? (See the top 10 tasteless...
...Recently, though, the list has got pretty samey. Among this year's top five were two popular films, the winning Slumdog Millionaire and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, buttressed by three strenuously worthy films - Frost/Nixon, Milk and The Reader - that appealed to the political preoccupations (Watergate, gays and the Holocaust) of the Academy's venerable membership, and which almost nobody else cared...