Word: spans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...through a blog entry about the state of journalism, repeating arguments that I?d made at dinner parties and illustrating them with stories that I?d rehearsed in barrooms. I finished the piece in twenty minutes, a record, and twenty minutes later, via e-mail, a producer from C-SPAN asked me if I?d be free to talk about it on the air that Friday...
...book in question is based on his life. For me the process began about four years ago, three years after the novel's publication, when writer-director Mike Mills invited me to his house in California to discuss his adaptation of the book. He had shortened the time span of the narrative, combined several young female characters into one and focused on the protagonist's complex relationship with his unhappy mother. He had improved my work, in other words, and I knew from the moment I read his script that his movie might be better than my book...
...almost nothing. Dong was introduced to welding as a student at Harbin Institute of Technology in China much against his will. "It was a nightmare," he recalls. Now, as a researcher at Battelle Institute in Columbus, Ohio, he's revolutionizing the field. The current methods for determining the life span, or what engineers call fatigue life, of a welded joint are notoriously imprecise. Dong refused to resign himself to the same guesswork that other engineers have long thought unavoidable. A man who has to keep himself from thinking after 9 p.m. in order to prevent insomnia, he had his eureka...
...Latinos are comprised of many races and nationalities, speak several languages and span the socio-economic spectrum. They can be undocumented immigrants or descendents of families that were on American soil before founding of the republic. Their diversity binds them to each other and to all other Americans. The dreams of the old and new immigrants overlap and mirror each other, offering up myriad reflections of a mutually imagined America. When Christopher Columbus set foot on the shores of the New World, he described the natives as "young...well made with fine shapes and faces...Some paint themselves with black...
...confused. As your report made clear, economic success is a cruel joke to most of our country's 160 million people. The sole beneficiary of skyrocketing property prices is the group composed of the ruling ?lite and the wealthy. They made fortunes in a very short span. But most middle-class Pakistanis are left with only ruined hopes. In the wake of rising inflation, a lackluster job market and stagnant salaries, a salaried worker can never think of buying an apartment or a modest house in his lifetime. Millions will have to forgo that dream. The gap between rich...