Word: thingness
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...flash and little innovation. Where Aqua has rethought the way Mac users interact with applications--using something called a "dock" that behaves like the Windows task bar, only with intelligence and flair--Millennium looks almost identical to Windows 98. The main differences are under the hood. One thing I liked: bugs that plagued my home network magically disappeared after installing Millennium, thanks to its emphasis on home networking. But while Millennium is designed to be more stable than previous Windows, my home PC still crashes daily. Millennium is also supposed to speed up the time it takes your computer...
Remember, however, that too much of a good thing can be just as much of a problem as too little. Although it would be hard for youngsters to overdose on EnfaGrow--they would have to consume so many calories that they would stop eating long before they got into trouble--you should monitor their consumption...
...thing is, though, that Ruth--as presented in the script written by Campion and her sister Anna, and as embodied by Winslet--is not as pliable as she appears. There's real need in her desire to escape the crushing banality of her family, and a real willingness to experiment with alternatives--especially...
...still got along, why should gays have to cower in the closet today? Something about the word open rattles the Army. What is the thinking when the military says that asking and telling will hurt morale? That unless everyone stays in denial, no one will take a shower? One thing that we know hurts morale is forcing people to dissemble about who waits for them at home, whom they vacation with. The Joint Chiefs fret over a breakdown of discipline, as if Tailhook had been a gay bacchanalia. Whether gay or straight, sex in the barracks...
Researchers at Women.com studying women's online usage across the country, learned the same lesson. "The one thing common to all women was that they viewed each session as a search-and-destroy mission," says senior vice president of marketing Anna Zornosa. "They'd come online with a list of five to 12 things they wanted to get accomplished, ranging from 'How do I move my IRA?' to 'My child has this rash'--activities that expressed the range of their entire lives. This medium was built for the modern woman...