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...trend has caught on at Harvard as well. Conor Quinn, a linguistics grad student, describes Urban Dictionary as a “sociolinguistic gold mine,” adding that the site is “an interesting reflection of people’s attitudes towards language. It’s not just about the definitions, but also how people go about presenting them...
...winter, the earnest Governor of Massachusetts was favored to be elected President. But Bush pere prevailed, of course, by portraying Dukakis as soft on defense, out of touch on values and lenient on crime. Look for a similar though not identical pitch this time. "There's a lot to mine in the Dukakis-Kerry record," says Ron Kaufman, a Boston-based Republican political consultant who served as political director in the first Bush White House. Republican National Committee researchers have already dug up Kerry's 1988 defense of the Dukakis furlough program, which permitted prison leaves for even violent offenders...
...ended up writing or co-writing six of the album's 13 songs. She also included covers of previously unreleased tracks given to her by professional admirers Tom Waits (The Long Way Home) and Townes Van Zandt (Be Here to Love Me). "Overall," she says, "this album feels more mine somehow...
...water, as human cells do. Geobacter needs only an outside compound--usually iron oxide, or rust--to accept the excess electrons. Lovley discovered how to coax Geobacter into not only dumping electrons onto uranium waste but also consuming petroleum by-products. Geobacter has already effectively decontaminated a uranium mine in Colorado and an oil spill in Minnesota...
...plastic surgeons and dermatologists, medi-spas are an opportunity to go retail, with fees determined by the market rather than an insurance company. Cash or credit card, please. "There is no big chain operator, but someone very soon is going to recognize the opportunity for a liquid gold mine," says Light...