Word: stroke
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...will YouTube and sites like it ever deliver media companies the sort of return on content that they're accustomed to? Google's big stroke of moneymaking genius was to sell ads linked to its search results and sell them to anybody. With five minutes and a credit card, you can sign up to bid on a search phrase--cream cheese, say--and pay Google only if people actually click through to your site. Google has since extended this advertising network to other sites, so your ads might show up next to a food blogger's post about bagels...
...gold was discovered accidentally on a river in Northern California--the first fleck of what would quickly become more than a thousand tons. Nine days later, a treaty was signed ending the U.S. war with Mexico--our first elective war, first imperial war--in one stroke extending the U.S. from the Texas border to the Pacific. At the same moment in London, meanwhile, a 29-year-old German philosopher named Karl Marx and his 27-year-old textile manufacturer friend Friedrich Engels published a pamphlet they called the Communist Manifesto. And days later, revolutions broke out in Europe, first...
...touches his erection.“She said, ‘It is hot.’ “‘And your hand is cold. I like that. It’s refreshing.’“‘May I stroke it?’“‘I wish you would.’” Smiley’s pre-coital dialogue is so formal it’s laughable, and it’s not only a sign of her distance from real life. Smiley...
Hypertension is a risk factor for a number of different conditions, such as heart attack or stroke, according to Benedict J. DiRusso, the director of Pharmacy Services for University Health Services...
Around the same time that CNN tried to paint a broad stroke on the hip-hop canvas last week, it also took a zoomed in approach, airing another piece about the difficulties being faced by gay rappers in the industry. The featured artist, “Deadlee,” doesn’t have an upcoming release, a major-label deal, or any real reason to get airtime. Sure, openly gay rappers are about as common as openly gay NBA players (though the Tim Hardaways in the rap game are far more prevalent), but a report...