Word: signallers
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...quarterbacks—neither of whom had ever taken a meaningful snap in a Crimson uniform—were competing to see which one would replace the best player in the Ivy League, an NFL draft pick, and arguably the top signal caller in Crimson history...
...home country of Sri Lanka, Mahalingam, 58, related to TIME the saga of his 101-day ordeal as a captive of Somali pirates. It began, he says, with "the flash of 5 to 10 shots. Straightaway I knew it must be pirates." Before he could issue a distress signal, three fiber-glass speedboats with powerful outboard motors pulled alongside the Semlow. The pirates hooked a small metal ladder to the ship and scrambled aboard. "There were 15 to 20 men wearing shorts and T shirts," says Mahalingam. Those who boarded were barefoot but carrying pistols, machine guns and rocket-propelled...
...such words to enter the lexicon, he adds, but "through hip-hop and the Internet, words travel so fast that white middle-class boys and girls in London are talking like black kids in the ghettos of Harlem and Compton." The speed with which Blinglish expressions are coined may signal disappointment for bofs (old people) trying to decode youthspeak. Brap (cool) and wix (wicked, as in good, but even cooler) these dictionaries may be, but they're already old school...
...last resort, one ready strategy for fending off the rage of its Arab street: beyond avoidance lay appeasement. No country in the West has done more to cultivate world Arab opinion, to appease Arab terrorists, to ostentatiously oppose American Middle East policy (Iraq above all), to champion the signal Arab cause of Palestine. It was no accident that Yasser Arafat chose Paris as his place to die--Paris, after Jerusalem, his second holiest city...
...good stuff to float to the top. That turned out to be a very powerful idea, the ramifications of which we're exploring in other areas, such as with tagging on Flickr or blogs. People are finding more ways to have the wisdom of crowds filter that signal-to-noise...