Word: shelfful
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...longer have one another, which may be said of words as well. A more companionable relationship with the dead seems to diminish death's worst feature, absence. Dead quiet as a library is supposed to be, its residents are continually chatting up a storm. On any given shelf, at any given hour, Hamlet broods, Hitler rants, Plato dreams, and Grant, gracious in victory, permit Lee's men to keep their horses...
Ever since Twister grossed $41 million the weekend of May 10, 1996, the summer has inched back into May. Spider-Man has probably cemented this. "It does allow an advantage in getting theater shelf space because you're ahead of the pack," says Jeff Blake, the head of Sony marketing and distribution. By going early, Spider-Man got in 7,500 screens out of about 35,000 for its big weekend...
...sitting on a small shelf next to his desk rests a more portentous omen for big-time collegiate athletics—the groundbreaking The Game of Life, co-authored by former Princeton President William G. Bowen and James L. Shulman, which criticizes collegiate sports for what the authors view as their professionalism and commercialization...
...sense, the news last week that scientists have created a "roborat" represents an ingenious technical breakthrough. Engineers have tried for years--without success--to build robots smart enough to cross even a railroad track. Now, by combining off-the-shelf technology with a creature whose maneuvering skills have been honed by millions of years of evolution, physiologists at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn have created remotely piloted rodents that navigate complex terrain at the will of controllers who are more than 500 yards away. Wearing tiny backpacks equipped with radio transmitters and miniature...
...shoes? The cynical response is that increased costs and our hardwired fashion instinct will prevent us wearing the same shoes too long, but the authors lead by example: Cradle to Cradle is printed with non-toxic ink on material made from waterproof resins. When you run out of shelf space, you can feed it to the flowers...