Word: thingness
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...challenge science faces is one all too familiar to high school chess captains and economists at dinner parties: the challenge of convincing people that what you do really is interesting. With images like this, Professor Aizenberg is getting people to ask questions. “If the first thing they see is that they like the image and only after they decide to read what science is behind it, I think I have achieved what I wanted,” she said...
...That’s kind of a big thing to ship,” said Katherine J. Calle ’10, who claims that she was the first to discover the broken window and promptly alerted the House master, on Martin Luther King...
...told us. “There’s no way those little sticky things”—the suction cups used to hoist the glass into its new position on the second floor of Quincy—“could have held that entire thing...
...still sporting the clownish TV makeup later in the evening when he entered a nearby restaurant called Taboon. The maître d' scrambled to make room for him, as if Lindsay Lohan had just swept in with an entourage. "I hope it came across in the Colbert thing that we haven't put any remedies [for the financial system] in place," Spitzer was saying. He ordered a Scotch and soda. "Barack is still listening to the same people. None of the questions he asked were the ones he should have been asking." He said he hoped the Administration would...
...through, you come to appreciate who matters and what and why," he says, referring to his family. "But you also lose a bit of the edge that leads you to tilt at windmills. Maybe you might call that ambition. Silda used to say, 'Being right isn't the only thing.' I would get so caught up in the ambition of proving to the world we're right. You can destroy yourself that...