Like other outsiders, I was continually impressed by their superior understanding of the riverine ecology we shared. Yet numberless people struggle with tasks that require precise discrimination between quantities. Perhaps this should be unsurprising. After all, without counting, how can someone tell ...
For all that outsiders mocked Irvine as a place of sterile uniformity, she had become comfortable in its embrace. She had been beguiled by the reputation of the schools, which boasted a 97% college-admission rate.The muted beige strip malls teemed with tutoring centers. If neighboring Newport ...
Behold the wonder that is the NBA's biggest enigma -- sartorially, too.First, a bit about Westbrook, the style icon. For the cover story of our Photo Issue,The Magaimed to run a spread with a fashion-forward athlete who also happens to play a sport pretty well. ...
but actually they’re here and part of the population, even if they’re not recognized by the city. We’re interested in how these policies affect the outsiders—outsiders who are inside the city. We want to find out how local and national...
Prince Uldren Sov has proven that while intelligent, cunning, clever and loyal to his sister and the Reef, he has shown to be condescending, smug and arrogant towards outsiders and enemies, particularly to the Guardians. Even some members of the Reef dislike him for his negative attitude but...
As a matter of fact, the people of World III initially called it a light curtain, but outsiders referred to it as a light tomb.” “Like a shroud?”10 “That’s right. Different people see things differently. The inhabitants of World III said it was a happy paradise—though I don’t...
Storiesoften help to define a corporate culture but also to explain it to outsiders too. Sometimes, they feature as a backdrop to something else entirely. Let’s look at one in particular, the rocket that took Microsoft into orbit: the original PC. ...
How often do we deceive ourselves by not wanting to see things which outsiders then need to point out to us? Retribution meted out to Dark Horse and his Clan was ruthless, typical of justice at that time. As uncomfortable Condor’s Eye may have been, he knew that any clemency pleas ...
(pluralize by adding an "e") because it sounds more impressive in German, :-) and the Wikipedia article includes a useful list of titles, from Jane Eyre and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and The Outsiders to The Kite Runner and Washington ...
The khipus were kept locked away in an underground chamber in the village church. Hyland and her husband were the first outsiders to lay eyes on them, and she was not disappointed. “It was an incredible moment,” she says. “But I didn’t have time to be awestruck bec...