Word: tickly
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...Somewhere between Al Sharpton and David Horowitz, the racial debate (like much of the political debate) became spectacle. Black.White. revels in a racist fantasy, one that asserts that the only important thing to be said about one?s ethnicity are the problems it generates for others. Seemingly every little tick and personal eccentricity is blamed on the characters' race. To which I respond with Chris Rock?s famous line: Whatever happened to crazy...
...next few months. A brief recession and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 spurred a prolonged period of very low interest rates. That boosted U.S. consumption?in particular the rate-sensitive housing market?and kept the global economy humming. But long-term rates are now beginning to tick upward: last week the U.S. 30-year treasury bond reached 5.04%, its highest level since late 2004, and the housing market is cooling off?potentially triggering an economic slowdown as homeowners cut their spending...
Perhaps both. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' 2003 debut, Fever to Tell, careened between art-school punk--the song Tick repeated the word tick an ear-curdling 49 times--and vulnerable pop exemplified by the hit Maps, in which O chased after a lover with the lyric "Wait/ They don't love you like I love you." As the rare avant-garde band willing to dip a black-painted toenail into the mainstream, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs attracted a small but protective following that many bands would kill for, but they weren't satisfied. "We don't want to preach...
With habitats crashing, animals that live there are succumbing too. Environmental groups can tick off scores of species that have been determined to be at risk as a result of global warming. Last year, researchers in Costa Rica announced that two-thirds of 110 species of colorful harlequin frogs have vanished in the past 30 years, with the severity of each season's die-off following in lockstep with the severity of that year's warming...
...Microsystems who seems comfortable with his role as the third Google guy. (That's something like being the fifth Beatle but far more lucrative.) Indeed, inside Google, obsessing about the stock price is almost evil. Marissa Mayer, a vice president, imposes penalties on anyone she catches tracking the latest tick. "If I see someone looking at the share price, they owe the cost of one share," says Mayer. A few have had to pay up, she says. Early last week that could have meant a fine of nearly...