Word: specializing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...TIME's special report on paying for college...
...moment, people have decided that anything related to Barack Obama--not just posters and T shirts but magnets and mouse pads and coasters and clocks--has special value. For most people, I don't think it has much to do with investment; it's about placing inspiration under glass. You can capture historic moments in memory, but those fade and fracture. The buttons allow instant replay: the speeches, the spectacle, the grand finale. And who knows: maybe someday they'll have public as well as private value...
...their scarcity, but now mass production creates mass disposal and the chance to find worth in the weird and worthless: bottle caps and matchbook covers, swizzle sticks and toilet seats. (There's a toilet-seat-art museum in San Antonio, Texas.) Since objects of desire tend to hold some special meaning, they let people connect with the instant intimacy of shared fixation. If you doubt this, stop by modernmoisttowelette.com to compare notes about the world's best hand wipes and their unexpected uses...
...dining hall, which will be decorated for the occasion, will feature a special holiday menu, complete with whole roasted turkeys, cranberry sauce, butternut squash tortellini, hot mulled cider, and a variety of fresh-baked pies...
...Sure, I’m pretty special and all, but really? As a student doing a small project on the biofuel industry, I wasn’t exactly expecting unsolicited help from the government...