Word: thinning
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...impossible for him to accept a compliment. It is Keillor talking, no question. Someone says, "Good speech," and he mumbles, "Oh, it was way too long. I didn't know what I was talking about. I was just blathering." Actually, he confesses, "good" is not good enough. "Under this thin veneer of modesty lies a monster of greed. I drive away faint praise, beating my little chest, waiting to be named Sun God, King of America, Idol of Millions. I don't want to say 'Thanks, glad you liked it.' I want to say 'Rise, my people...
...Library of Congress with the noted scholar and Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin, who would show the Prince some original manuscripts relating to the Constitution. Diana, meanwhile, planned to accompany Nancy to Straight, a drug-rehabilitation center in Springfield, Va. Like stylish clothes and a penchant for being elegantly thin, concern about drug abuse is something the two women have in common...
...margin. Bob Dylan kept pushing it back, bending it around, like some rock-struck jet pilot always testing himself, testing his craft, punching the outside of the envelope. Dylan took rock 'n' roll way up high where the air is thin and the head gets giddy. Rock has never come back. Bob Dylan has never come down...
...increase the amount of hours they work by taking over responsibilities from professors, leading to the institutionalization of graduate-student teaching and the expansion of the role of the TF in the classroom. It also might encourage graduate students to work on more classes, spreading their resources too thin and leaving undergraduates neglected. Also, despite what graduate students are saying in their push for unions, it is likely that any union would push for a standardized pay system scale that is not based on teaching merit...
...even more disheartening aspects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, as the disease claims the lives of adults left and right, their children are often left as orphans—struggling to make it on their own or taken in by extended family already stretched thin by the entrenched poverty that plagues much of sub-Saharan Africa. In this region of the African continent alone, more than 5.5 million children have lost one or both parents due to AIDS, and that number is expected to skyrocket to 40 million by 2010. Again to put this in context, that number would represent about...