Word: everydayness
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Sometimes in order to become famous, people kill somebody who already is. We ordinary folks should appreciate common, everyday things. DEMIS DIOTALLEVI Rimini, Italy...
...Macintosh owners used a mouse to point and click on easily identifiable icons on the screen--a trash can and a file folder. Jobs also paired the laser printer with the computer, thus sparking the desktop-publishing revolution. "We started out to get a computer in the hands of everyday people, and we succeeded beyond our wildest dreams," laughs Jobs...
...Everyday occurrences aren't exactly fodder for future fund-raisers. Take an ordinary supper in the dining hall of my college (colleges are like Harvard houses, except that Oxford has about 40 of them). The hall is about 500 years old and is bedecked with portraits of famous alumni and old Masters: Harold Wilson, Clement Attlee, Bill Clinton...
...more than warn of the dire consequences of global warming." Even though the President did promise to come up with a "realistic" U.S. plan to slash emissions before December talks in Kyoto, Japan on a global warming treaty, environmentalists aren't holding their breath. While smog and soot are everyday problems American voters can easily relate to, the threat of coastal areas in Florida and Louisiana being submerged by rising seas is less immediate. And with the U.S.' energy-guzzling economy boasting record growth, the perceived danger becomes even more remote...
...everyday that we hire a tenured professor from Harvard--and that's some understatement," he said...