Word: sparing
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...charity is supplementing its famous Red Kettle Campaign with a Twitter feed, a Facebook widget, and a cell phone text message donation program in addition to its recently introduced online kettle program. The Army, short on volunteer bell ringers, even pays some people to coax passersby into donating their spare change for the organization's causes, which include disaster relief, soup kitchens, drug and alcohol counseling and homeless shelters...
...renminbi (about 15 cents) once a month, then an enormous reserve could be built up for the relief of deserving causes (and thus create "one big family," to use One Foundation - speak). Although large corporate endowments are solicited and obtained, the soul of the enterprise really does lie in spare change. Ordinary Chinese donate by patronizing one of many businesses that Li has signed up - by dining at the South Beauty restaurant chain, for example (one renminbi off the bill goes to the foundation), or by using their China Merchants Bank credit cards. They can also donate at post offices...
...people truly know things, the superficiality of our knowledge renders us vulnerable. Sure, there’s Factcheck.com. But who fact-checks the fact-checkers? Without our own knowledge to draw on, we must rely on the kindness of strangers. Admittedly, people who edit massive online encyclopedias in their spare time are probably not dangerous psychopaths, but there are plenty of pranksters out there who add things like “My dad knew him” to articles on Idiosyncrasy. This is hilarious, but without some tidbits bouncing around our own crania, we become unable to sift fact from...
...meantime, he's quite happy to keep drawing $300 a month from the U.S. military. In his spare time, he tools around in a makeshift laboratory at home - these days, he says, he mostly helps friends and neighbors repair malfunctioning computers. His one connection to his old life: jihadi websites, where he follows the fortunes of his onetime employers. "I read on the Internet that al-Qaeda are using some of my triggers against the Americans in Afghanistan," he says with giddy excitement. "It is fantastic...
...post-Katrina New Orleans. Describing the production, Chan recalled, “the bat...the cars, and the drunk guy screaming, ‘I’m waiting too!’” These stray sounds from the city helped settle Beckett’s spare script into its rough setting. “The silence of the play,” Chan said, “is a gift from Beckett. It’s a gift of space of silence that we can fill.”The idea of emptiness runs through Chan?...