Word: towardness
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...wooden slats, tree branches, wax, wire, tape, sponge, and whatnot. Sometimes he also wears a glove on his left hand from which a number of long wooden spikes protrude all the way to the ground. The effect is visually and conceptually compelling, especially if you see him walking toward you in a city street. Mudman is a living, walking sculpture...
...Unsurprisingly, Madonna will retain the couple's $12 million house in Beverly Hills and two New York apartments. The pop star has grown increasingly cold toward England, and her desire to spend more time in the U.S. is widely rumored to have been a source of tension between the pair...
...available to them is to flood their economies with money. China announced a big stimulus package nearly two weeks ago, and in Beijing last weekend, government policymakers acknowledged that more is probably coming. In the U.S., another economic-stimulus plan seems inevitable; the Federal Reserve, meanwhile, is probably headed toward what in 1990s Japan became known as the ZIRP: zero-interest-rate policy. The Fed funds rate is already down to 1%, and the economy is still sinking. Rates have nowhere to go but down - all the way to zero. And by the time President-elect Barack Obama takes office...
...glimpse of what Everett’s life with the Pirahã was like. Though he does spin a number of colorful but disparate narrative threads, the cross-stitch that binds them all together is his research. In fact, the whole second part of the book is geared toward explaining many of the findings that have helped Everett make a name for himself in the academic world (though much of this bubbles up in the former part of the text as well). According to Everett—who has spent more time with the Pirahã than any other researcher...
...wait for the winds to be just right," says Choi Sung Young, who was able to take advantage of rare southerly winds on the peninsula on Thursday to launch nearly a dozen gas-filled balloons, containing thousands of flyers pillorying Kim Jong Il's regime, and watch them float toward the border. (See pictures of The Rise of Kim Jong...