Word: uselessness
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...movie's producers, who wanted Devils' 160-minute running time trimmed.) All he will say is: "I don't care what people think of my films. But they should be able to see them so they can have an opinion." When will he try to direct again? It's useless to ask. He won't discuss...
...learned part of the answer almost two years ago, when I took a course on Frege, Russell and the early Wittgenstein. These are perhaps the three philosophers most useless for the task of social change; revolutionaries seek thrilling apostrophes to the workers of the world, not absurd questions such as “what is the number one?” Yet as we worked through the syllabus, I was struck by Frege’s injunction “always to separate sharply the psychological from the logical”—to distinguish clearly the reasons...
...working in the camp for Amnesty International, deduces from the bomb craters and tank tracks that Tawalbe and the two fighters who accompanied him went into the house to get close enough to a tank or D-9 to plant explosives on it; the Palestinians' bombs, says Holley, were useless unless they were placed directly on the armor of a vehicle. Holley surmises that the bulldozer driver saw the Palestinians and rammed the wall down on top of Tawalbe. A week later--by which time Tawalbe's name was known throughout the Arab world--his family dug out his body...
...will have to learn to imitate nature's highly effective cradle-to-cradle system of nutrient flow and metabolism, in which the very concept of 'waste' does not exist," they write. In other words, things shouldn't be made in the first place if they will ultimately become useless junk. Instead of ending up in a pit, they should become a cradle?fodder or springboard?for some new creation...
...heavy, male-centric fantasy to tell naturalistic stories of love and loss. Both "Slow News Day" and "Dumped" have a soft, subtle pleasure in their stories of the things that really matter. While "Spider-Man" may be the comic character of the moment, his extraordinary powers would be laughably useless in Watson's world...