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| China iPad assemblers speak out Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:10:25 EST Miss Chen stares curiously at the iPad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product. |
| Pakistan seal series whitewash as England face loss of No. 1 ranking Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:49:56 EST Pakistan wrapped up a first series whitewash over top-ranked England on Monday by winning the third and final Test in Dubai by 71 runs, making history in the process. |
| 3 dead, possibly dozens trapped after factory collapse in Pakistan Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:06:21 EST At least three people are dead and dozens possibly trapped after a factory collapsed in Pakistan on Monday, police said. |
| China disputes reports of self-immolations by Tibetans Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:26:26 EST The Chinese authorities have contested reports that three Tibetans set themselves on fire last week in a remote area of southwestern China. |
| China bars airlines from EU tax plan Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:08:21 EST The Chinese government has barred the country's airlines from complying with a European Union charge on carbon emissions, escalating a dispute that officials have warned could turn into a trade war. |
| Australian authorities urge residents to flee floods Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:08:34 EST Australian authorities on Monday pleaded with hundreds of people, who had chosen to remain in a town in the path of rising flood waters, to vacate their homes. |
| Ministry: Suicide car bomber targets kills 7 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:39:36 EST A suicide car bomb exploded Sunday in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar City, killing seven people and wounding at least nine, the interior ministry said. |
| Recovery mode in PNG ferry sinking Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:23:00 EST Authorities in Papua New Guinea said Sunday it may be time to shift from rescue to recovery mode in their search for 98 people who remain unaccounted for in last week's ferry sinking. |
| Why China won't condemn Syria Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:57:15 EST Questions linger about the motivations of China and Russia, who vetoed a U.N. Security Council draft resoultion on Syria. |
| Aborigines' complex Australia role Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:19:42 EST Provocative actions by demonstators have provoked alarm and introspection in Australia about the relationship of the indigenous population with society as a whole. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 06, 2012 is:
propinquity • \pruh-PING-kwuh-tee\ • noun
1 : nearness of blood : kinship 2 : nearness in place or time : proximity
Examples:
Many of the retirement community's residents cite the propinquity of the area's various cultural offerings as a significant reason for their choice of the facility.
"Canada was faced with the overwhelming propinquity of the United States; it was just next door -- for almost nine thousand kilometres." -- From Derek Lundy's 2011 book Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America
Did you know?
"Propinquity" and its cousin "proximity" are related through the Latin root "prope," which means "near." That root gave rise to "proximus" (the parent of "proximity") and "propinquus" (an ancestor of "propinquity"). "Proximus" is the superlative of "prope" and thus means "nearest," whereas "propinquus" simply means "near" or "akin," but in English "propinquity" conveys a stronger sense of closeness than "proximity." (The latter usually suggests a sense of being in the vicinity of something.) The distinctions between the two words are subtle, however, and they are often used interchangeably. "Propinquity" is believed to be the older of the two words, first appearing in English in the 14th century; "proximity" followed a century later.