Word: zillion
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...home, a free screen saver (available at setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu that uses your computer's downtime to help sort through the reams of noisy static gathered by radio telescopes. The odds of pulling a Jodie Foster (who snared the elusive extraterrestrial signal in the 1997 sci-fi flick Contact) are a zillion to one. But if you fail--or even if you succeed--nobody's going to burn you at the stake...
...earth's curves, unfurling a sphere into a serrated plane. During the age of exploration, cartographers scrambled again to make the most navigable two-dimensional renderings of the globe, leading to the invention of the Mercator projection in the 16th century. Taking pictures of the earth from a zillion miles away has certainly helped things along today, although "seeing" where you are on any map at all starts to feel old-fashioned post...
...could have incarnated Top Guns and baby Terminators, or starred in any of a zillion teen comedies. But he chose a tougher route to filling out his resume. And as it grew, in his seven major roles before Titanic, a portrait of the young artist began to emerge. So often DiCaprio played the emotional orphan, in a forlorn quest not for a father but for his own budding maturity--for a chance to become the man who needs no father...
...from designers like DKNY, but I don't spend that much money. When I buy clothes. I've been through so many phases. When I was in New York there was the Salvation Army phase when I bought so many polo shirts from the 70s. I have like a zillion and a half, none of which you've ever seen me wear. I have shitloads of 70s clothes, not to mention all my bellbottoms that I wear with all my sneakers. When I'm with my mom we get mid-range in price but when I'm by myself...since...