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| 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. |
| Apple plant workers complain of conditions 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. |
| Q&A: Apple's China supplier in the spotlight Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:00:06 EST Earlier this month Apple released its annual supplier responsibility report which detailed alleged workplace health and safety protocol violations by its suppliers. |
| The 20 most entertaining Super Bowl tweets Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:28:36 EST In the social media age, you don't need to be at a party to enjoy clever or catty comments about the Super Bowl. |
| U.S. officials to get secure Android phones Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:49:18 EST Some U.S. officials this year are expected to get smartphones capable of handling classified government documents over cellular networks, according to people involved in the project. |
| Really, he's on Twitter? 10 unlikely tweeters Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:43:24 EST See CNN's list of 10 well-known people whose Twitter accounts will cause you to do a double-take. |
| What will the Facebook millionaires do? Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:19:03 EST Whenever a hugely popular and successful company goes public, many people wonder what will happen to all the newly created millionaires. What will they do now that they are financially "set for life"? Will there be "1,000 millionaires"? Will they suffer "sudden wealth syndrome"? |
| How not to annoy people via e-mail Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:23:33 EST E-mail can be a lovely way to connect, an easy and instant medium for getting back or keeping in touch, a canvas for hellos and sorrys and XOXOs. |
| UFC's White hacked after scrap with Anonymous Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:26:37 EST Dana White loves a good fight. |
| Pinterest helps users catalog their passions Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:05:04 EST For Heather Neroy, it used to be a tedious process: Whenever she came across an interesting arts-and-crafts project or recipe on the Internet, she would save it for later by copying the link, pasting it into an e-mail and sending it to herself. |
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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.