Word: mereness
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Today is Wednesday. I am halfway there. In a mere two days I will pull the shade down, turn the alarm off, and enter a state of consciousness hibernating bears would envy. I can almost feel my soft pillow...
...whale's odyssey began when the one-week-old J.J. was found rolling in the surf near Los Angeles in January 1997, sick and emaciated (a mere 1,670 lbs.). Lifeguards and beachgoers loaded her into a U-Haul truck and drove her 120 miles to Sea World. She arrived comatose, but within days perked up and began gaining 2 lbs. an hour. She dined at first on a baby formula of cream mixed with mushed-up herring and vitamins--sort of a whale version of New England clam chowder--and later switched to bottom feeding on a diet...
...nonetheless climbed over the perimeter wall of the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk in August 1980, at age 37, to join the occupation strike. With his electrifying personality, quick wit and gift of the gab, he was soon leading it. He moved his fellow workers away from mere wage claims and toward a central, daringly political demand: free trade unions...
...gather inductees before midnight like other normal student groups? The glee club sings, but sings at 11 p.m. The Crimson even comes at 6 p.m. But wait--these groups all have a higher purpose than mere social reinforcement...
...Internet and the proliferation of beepers and laptops and cell phones, many are constantly getting input and information. Most people have to behave like detectives in order to sift out the useful information from the useless. Similarly, the world of noir is a world of detectives, a world where mere information cannot help, where the world is a labyrinth and the city a maze. In increasingly urban, increasingly over-loaded lives, noir reflects the way that individuals are beginning to define themselves in an information culture...