Word: thingness
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These advances did not decrease the desire for music, but rather exponentially increased it. I think the same is true now. More people are listening to more music than in any other time in history. Why is that a bad thing...
...good songs, but at least they had a chance to get their record out and tour behind it. A lot of these bands are being elevated to star status and then torn down before their record has even come out. The Black Kids were touted as the next big thing before they even had an album. The cycle has just become so much faster...
...Ancestor (Little, Brown), an ABC News exclusive and on May 25 a prime-time television special on the History Channel. Of the avalanche of media-related promotion, Jorn Hurum, a Norwegian paleontologist involved in Ida's discovery, told the New York Times, "Any pop band is doing the same thing." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
Since one thing I’ve learned at Harvard is that etymology will improve almost any argument (or at least extend its length), let me begin with a brief history of the word. “Value” started from the Latin valere, passing through Old French before landing with a messy splash in English. An odd cluster of meanings branched from its two short syllables: it meant to be healthy, to be able, or to be worthy; when used to describe words, it also meant to be meaningful or to be significant. Somewhere along...
Axelrod, however, argues the opposite. "I would say the last three weeks have demonstrated the perils of such a thing," he told TIME this week, "because what you have seen is Cheney and the authors of the old policy trying desperately to justify what they did, and then you have seen people who are enraged by Cheney and the old policies who want to relitigate the whole matter. And all of a sudden you are in the old time machine headed backwards. And that's not useful." (Read a story about how the waterboarding controversy is drowning Pelosi...