Word: uselessness
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...This revealing anecdote - and much more - is chronicled in Alan Eason's book, The A-Z of Bradman, an alphabetical compendium of useful and useless information on the venerated cricketer, who died...
...psyllid, a sap-sucking insect invader from overseas whose depredations began three years ago. Unlike canker, greening spreads from tree to tree without the aid of heavy winds or rain. Greening, also called huanglongbing or yellow dragon disease, creates misshapen and bitter fruit and eventually renders the infected trees useless for commercial cultivation. As soon as the insects appeared, greening was detected in all 32 citrus-producing counties in Florida, as well as in Louisiana and Texas...
Scenes of exquisite boredom at school, as the teachers drone on about such traditional crowd pleasers as the Smoot-Hawley tariff act. Scenes of exquisite calculation at home, as Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) fakes an illness that will spare his fine intelligence another assault by the proponents of useless information. Ferris is no ordinary truant. The point of his exercise is not to waste the day but to spend it wisely. Or wise-guyly. So he will spring his best girl (Mia Sara) from school. He will get his best friend (Alan Ruck, who is lovely as a boy struggling...
...indications that the tourist slide had stopped, however, the doleful fact remained that the European tourist business this summer will remain rotten, especially compared with 1985, when a record 6.4 million Americans crossed the ocean. Says Carlo Mole, chairman of C.I.T., Italy's largest tour operator: ''It is useless to kid ourselves. This season is done...
...productive remedies such as dousing the sting with drinking water, rubbing it with sand, trying to suck the venom from it and - especially - urinating on it. These "therapies," doctors say, are all certain to aggravate the sting's burning sensation, and the last one ... well, it's not only useless and disgusting, it adds insult to jellyfish injury...