Word: circularity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Circular Quay, on Sydney's harborfront, among tourists in goofy headgear and Christians handing out copies of the New Testament, a group of pinheads have set up a makeshift badge bazaar around a huge Moreton Bay Fig tree. The scale might be small, but the vibe is pure Wall Street. The pin game is all about smart networking and sharp dealing, snaring the trophies you want by trading your duplicates rather than forking out cash. Dedicated pinheads have been known to loiter in the lobbies of five-star hotels at checkout time, hoping to talk corporate Games visitors into parting...
...distraught parents visit St. Mary's Hospital in Manchester, England, almost every day, crying over and comforting a baby they fear God plans to take from them. Or is it two babies? Their child, born on Aug. 8, is conjoined twins--two lives joined at a circular pelvis. One twin, called Mary in court papers to protect the family's anonymity, has a flaccid, useless heart, no working lungs and an underdeveloped brain. She can suck, kick and open one eye but may not have consciousness. Her bodymate Jodie is "bright, alert, sparkling...very much a 'with-it' sort...
...Southie has diversified, the collective mentality has stagnated. There are third and fourth generation Old Colony families, raising children who know almost nothing of the world that lies outside the boundaries of South Boston. Many kids and teens in Southie see all roads out as dead ends or circular paths eventually leading them right back to where they started. So they don't even try, instead accepting the inevitability of their futures, slipping almost mindlessly into lives filled with drugs, violence and poverty...
...techniques used by the U.S. and Taiwanese groups were similar. Both took stem cells from the limbus, the circular area of the eye that surrounds the cornea. These cells were grown on a sterilized membrane for several weeks until they formed a layer five to 10 cells thick. Doctors then cut pieces to the size they needed and sewed them into place...
...mood, consider that their neighbors to the south are a hyperthyroid, overprivileged, overbearing, overstimulated, venal crowd, self-important to the point of narcissism. Who can deny it? To the American's cartooning imagination, on the other hand, the Canadian seems - if you will forgive a circular argument - an awful lot like Al Gore...