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Webify, minisode, etc. — The Open Dictionary

britannica.com     Aug 18, 2008          

“Mediagenic,” “minisode,” and “webify”— just a sampling of the creative new words and expressions recently submitted by the public to Merriam-Webster’s Open Dictionary. Read on for their definitions… kumbaya (adjective):...                    

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On friendship, it's no contest

denverpost.com     Aug 17, 2008          

Poor Gloria Neal, already tired of John McCain's corny phrase "my friends," and there are still 80 days until the election. True enough, those words aren't the deepest, but they convey a lot more genuineness than Obama's glib...                    

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Economics Ain't Gymnastics: Why China Won't Overtake America - Capital Commerce (usnews.com)

minstrelboy.blogspot.com     Aug 17, 2008          

Economics Ain't Gymnastics: Why China Won't Overtake America - Instead of looking inward to the core American value of individualism and entrepreneurialism, they looked eastward to Japan and saw a high-tech, economic superpower...                    

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Airport hopes to speed up security with experience levels

nashuatelegraph.com     Aug 17, 2008          

People in New Hampshire like to ski and hate to go through airport security -- but would it help if the unpleasant task was more like the fun one? That is the idea behind the "Black Diamond" security initiative that launches...                    

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heiferman.com     Aug 16, 2008   1 related          

David Brooks: "these people a stripped-down, pragmatic mentality: Move on or go crazy. Don’t dwell. Look to the positive. Fix what needs fixing. Work together... the emotional Sturm und Drang over lesser things on reality TV,...                    

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How Partisan Should a Partisan Be Expected to Be?

markdaniels.blogspot.com     Aug 15, 2008          

Two Cuyahoga County mayors have been suspended from the Democratic Party executive committee there because they've joined other mayors in endorsing a Republican candidate for county commissioner.Is that right?The first two US...                    

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Thoughts on Obama and hope for a better world

citizen-times.com     Aug 15, 2008          

I read with great appreciation the theme of Obama as sojourner in a recent article by the conservative NYT writer, David Brooks. It helped me to understand why I am so deeply drawn to him, despite being female and wanting to...                    

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Talkin' 'bout their generation

signonsandiego.com     Aug 14, 2008   1 related          

It's about sex; it's about death; it's about, as one song so delicately puts it, the bitch of living. “Spring Awakening” is one eye-opening musical, which might explain why some audience members prefer to sit through the show...                    

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Inconspicuous Consumption

interglacial.com     Aug 14, 2008   1 related          

MISSED SIGNALS: The less money your peer group has, the more bling you buy—and vice-versa. Visible luxury thus serves less to establish the owner’s positive status as affluent than to fend off the negative perception that the...                    

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Asian socities drive like this...

metafilter.com     Aug 14, 2008          

David Brooks, Social Psychologist, Mark Liberman at Language Log looks at the science behind David Brook's latest column in which he claims there is a fundamental differences between the thought processes of individuals in...                    

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