Word: thingness
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...thing to be most careful about is handing over personal information like your date of birth and - above all else - your Social Security number. Once scammers have gotten ahold of that piece of particularly sensitive information, they can do real damage, like opening credit cards in your name and running up thousands of dollars in charges that you'll later have a difficult time getting out of. There might be a real reason to ask for that information - to do a background check, say - but you should withhold it until after an in-person meeting. "What employer is going...
...Boyle, a professor of ocean geochemistry at MIT. "My cautious view is that this looks promising right now, but I've been studying chemical tracers in foraminifera for pretty much my whole career, and there are often unexpected twists and turns." It is, he says, "the kind of thing where they may turn out to be right, and we'll look back in five years and say, 'that was when it all began to come together...
...there's one thing FlyBy has discovered during our college experience, it's this: there's no food like cheap food...
...correctly. In the book, Albright writes that her jewelry collection became, “before long, and without intending it ... a part of [her] diplomatic arsenal.” Now, we all know that jewelry makes a statement, but it’s hard to believe that the first thing running through most politicians’ minds before a meeting with Saddam Hussein would be “Which brooch would scare him away first...
Perhaps the most impressive thing about Hong’s success is that, as McLoon puts it, “his natural body-type isn’t exactly one that screams out at you ‘elite cyclist...