Word: whole
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little as four hours' notice, anytime? Priced to make a buck, of course. Customers do not buy a particular plane so much as the right to fly on a jet of the class they have purchased. NetJets owners can purchase a fraction of a plane up to the whole thing and get a proportional share of its air time. A one-eighth share of, say, a Cessna Citation V Ultra goes for $835,000, and each hour of occupied flight will cost you $1,242. Management and other fees are around $7,600 a month...
...before is already a second or two in the past; the first line of this story went by minutes ago. Yet without a memory of what's been said, none of what you are now reading makes the slightest sense. The same is true for our lives as a whole. Memory provides personal context, a sense of self and a sense of familiarity with people and surroundings, a past and present and a frame for the future...
...ultimately stored in the brain's cortex, within its deeply furrowed outer layer--a component of the brain dauntingly more complex than comparable parts in lesser species. Experts in brain imaging are only beginning to understand what goes where, and how the parts are reassembled into a coherent whole...
Some people are worried about the trend toward making people more alike--taller, thinner, smarter. Maybe it's best for society as a whole to include those with a range of needs and talents and predispositions, warts and all. "As someone who morally values diversity," says ethicist Elizabeth Bounds of Emory University's Candler School of Theology, "I find this frightening. We run the risk of shaping a much more homogeneous community around certain dominant values, a far more engineered community." What sort of lottery would decide who is to leap ahead, who is to be held back...
...comic, not a fighter.He can't throw an uppercut, but he knows how to get a laugh. And right now, he's the funniest man in America. Dick Gregory calls Rock "a genius." Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels says, "There's always one comic a whole generation imitates. Chris dominates now. There's no one as good." Then again, Jerry Seinfeld, a pal of Rock's, says this about Rock's hip-hopping in-your-face style: "It's the yelling that makes it special. It's very easy to hear what he's saying. Beyond that...