Word: spans
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...Next Thing, for something we haven't seen or done before. He shares our longing to have each experience be just a little bit bigger and more resonant than the last--our need to look at holographic fish while we eat sushi. And he knows our attention span is short, because his is too. What makes Rockwell different from other artists is that instead of being dismayed by our growing collective add, he embraces it. One of the many reasons he found designing the sets for Hairspray gratifying, he says, is that "in architecture...
...other rule changes were decided on at the annual spring meeting: the reduction of football coaches from six full-time and six part-time to seven full-time and three part-time; and the establishment of a seven-week span free from all athletic activity in every sport...
FROM SHADOW TO LIGHT See this Web-only compilation of photographs that span the year from the tragic initial days to the war in Afghanistan to the clearing of the World Trade Center site...
...Catalonia in October, couples expressions heard on and around the day itself with his own translation of Euripides' The Trojan Women. "There is an illuminating relationship between the fall of Troy and Sept. 11," he says. "These two huge events of a mythic size seem to form a span of history." Iain Banks thinks Dead Air slots into the second category, which examines the state of the world after the attacks. The story, about radio DJ Ken and his affair with a gangster's wife, begins with guests at a party merrily throwing random objects from the roof...
...varied reasons for home sharing often depend on age. In a study of 105 home providers conducted at the University of Kansas Life Span Institute, researchers R. Mark Mathews and Deborah Altus found that people 55 to 70 tended to value home sharing for its financial savings while the 70-and-older group prized the service and security. The older people wanted someone else in the home so that they would feel safer as well as get some help with chores. "One woman in her mid-70s, who'd applied for a housemate after her husband died, ended up having...