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| Djokovic named Laureus Sportsman of the Year for 2011 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:14:52 EST World No.1 Novak Djokovic has been named Laureus World Sportsman of the Year at a star-studded ceremony in London. |
| Apple manufacturing plant workers complain of long hours, militant culture Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:44:01 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. |
| After much delay, Senate clears FAA bill Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:36:13 EST After passing 23 temporary extensions, the Senate voted 75 to 20 Monday to approve a long-term funding bill for the FAA and sent it to the president for his expected signature. |
| Do political 'tell-alls' go too far? Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:35:40 EST It is a tribute to New Journalism that it remains controversial, 50 years after an Esquire article by Gay Talese awakened writers to the possibility that reporters' copy was not limited to a dull recitation of the facts, that those facts could be employed to create literature. |
| CNN Student News: Daily Discussion Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:30:02 EST February 7, 2012 |
| Former intern: Book details Kennedy affair Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:29:43 EST The author of a new tell-all book claims she lost her virginity to President John F. Kennedy when she was a 19-year-old White House intern, and that the affair lasted 18 months. |
| Man, 2 sons dead; mystery of mom's disappearance lingers Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:16:16 EST The deaths of a Washington man and his two sons in what authorities believe was a murder-suicide may mean the 2009 disappearance of the children's mother may never be solved. |
| Aftershocks rattle Philippines; quake death toll climbs to 15 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:15:48 EST A 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Monday off the third-largest island in the Philippines has killed at least 15 people, the government said. |
| IMF warns China on eurozone fallout Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:04:39 EST Economic growth in China could drop by half this year in the event of a sharp recession in Europe, the IMF predicted on Monday in a report that underscored the importance of global trade to the world's second largest economy. |
| Syrian rebel leadership is split Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:59:35 EST Rival dissident army officers are claiming to lead the increasingly armed rebellion within Syria, exposing rifts within the opposition. |
| U.S. working 'at every level' to resolve NGO dispute with Egypt Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:38:52 EST U.S. aid to Egypt could suffer if Egypt persists in prosecuting 43 people, including 19 Americans, in a crackdown on nongovernmental organizations, White House and State Department officials said Monday. |
| Strike in France expected to ground many overseas flights Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:38:17 EST Air France expects to cancel nearly half its "long haul" flights Tuesday because of a strike, the airline said in a news release, and more than a quarter of the carrier's remaining scheduled flights are expected not to get off the ground. |
| Chuck Norris endorses Newt Gingrich, rails against 'trifecta of tyranny' Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:34:07 EST Chuck Norris doesn't endorse presidential candidates -- he anoints political saviors. |
| British court grants bail to radical cleric Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:22:03 EST A court in the United Kingdom has granted bail to a radical cleric accused of links to al Qaeda, the British Home Office said Monday. |
| Massachusetts stranded-dolphin death toll up to 92 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:15:38 EST The unexplained beachings of scores of dolphins over the past month along Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is the largest "single-species event" of its kind on record in the northeastern United States, a marine mammal specialist said Monday. |
| Authorities: Suspect kills officer, steals police car before he is fatally shot Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:53:44 EST An Alabama robbery suspect fatally stabbed a police officer in jail, escaped in a stolen patrol car and wounded another officer before he was killed, authorities said Friday. |
| Inside story of Foxconn shrouded in secrecy Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:51:11 EST We meet her by chance on the side of a road. She looks the very model of a Chinese factory worker: young, vibrant, dressed in the cheap brand-name knockoff fashions so common of poor rural villages. |
| Romania's PM resigns amid protests, winter deaths Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:47:13 EST Romania's prime minister resigned Monday in the wake of weeks of public protests against austerity measures and a deadly spell of bitterly cold weather. |
| Psychologists highlight pitfalls of online dating Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:33:15 EST Thanks to the proliferation of online dating, would-be couples are now almost as likely to meet via email or a virtual "wink" as they are through friends and family. |
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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.