Word: collectedness
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Ten of these tiny centipedes (about 0.4 in. long) were retrieved from samples of leaf litter as part of a biological dragnet conducted in 1998 for the Central Park Conservancy by researchers Liz Johnson and Kefyn Catley of the American Museum of Natural History. Their mission: to assess the health...
"I have a room off my bedroom that I just go in," he says. "All my things are in there--books, CDs, guitars, boots, belts, anything I've collected along the way. It's quite a carnival." When he writes, Springsteen generally sits at the same table he has used...
At Cheney's Halliburton in 1998, the accountants (from--where else?--Arthur Andersen) allowed the company to count uncollected bills--cost overruns from fixed-price construction contracts--as revenue. Under standard accounting rules, overruns should be listed as a cost unless there is a likelihood the bills will be collected...
Ji'an is a popular pilgrimage for South Korean tour groups eager to take in the rich heritage of their national past. They're easy to recognize by their name-brand sneakers and identical baseball caps. Guesthouses along the Yalu are routinely booked up, and Korean restaurants are rowdy late...
Rather than admit failure, Jefferson devised a solution any spinning politician would recognize: he changed objectives. The expedition, he advised Congress, "has had all the success which could have been expected." Its goal, he said, was actually the understanding "of numerous tribes of Indians hitherto unknown," not to mention examining...