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| Op-Ed Columnist: Come the Revolution Wed, 16 May 2012 19:00:01 GMT Through ventures like Coursera, world-class learning is coming at bargain-basement prices. |
| Op-Ed Contributor: Nuns on the Frontier Wed, 16 May 2012 18:55:05 GMT The tension between nuns and the Catholic Church’s male hierarchy has roots in the 19th century. |
| HDL ‘Good Cholesterol’ Found Not to Cut Heart Risk Thu, 17 May 2012 05:45:21 GMT People genetically prone to higher levels of HDL, often called “good cholesterol,” showed that they did not have any significant decrease in risk of cardiovascular disease. |
| A Conversation With Carson Chow: A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity Wed, 16 May 2012 17:40:04 GMT Carson Chow has used mathematical models to determine the causes of obesity, and ways to stem the epidemic. |
| Practical Traveler: 7 Tips for Saving on Rental Cars Wed, 16 May 2012 18:08:57 GMT With prices expected to surge during the busy summer car-rental season, here are some ways to keep costs down. |
| Alzheimer’s Prevention Is Aim of Drug Trial Wed, 16 May 2012 20:20:47 GMT A clinical trial of Crenezumab will focus largely on members of a Colombian family who are genetically destined to develop the disease but who do not yet have any symptoms. |
| Well: Phys Ed: Cancer Survivors Who Exercise Live Longer Wed, 16 May 2012 20:58:28 GMT Even moderate activity like taking a walk may improve cancer survivors' long-term prognosis, according to new research showing that regular exercise can lower survivors' risk of premature death, not only from cancer but from any cause. |
| Popular Antibiotic May Raise Risk of Sudden Death Thu, 17 May 2012 05:38:30 GMT Azithromycin may be risky for adults with heart problems, a new study finds, by possibly causing abnormal, potentially fatal, heart rhythms. |
| Paralyzed, Moving a Robot With Their Minds Thu, 17 May 2012 05:47:19 GMT Scientists said a tiny brain implant allowed two people who are virtually paralyzed below the neck to manipulate a robotic arm. |
| Opinionator: Less Meat, Less Global Warming Wed, 16 May 2012 16:52:09 GMT We can slow global warming by eating fewer animal products. |
| Opinionator | Fixes: The Power of Nursing Wed, 16 May 2012 11:00:24 GMT The work of the Nurse-Family Partnership and other groups like it bring long term benefits to mother, child and society. |
| Eating, Live Butchery and, Oh Yeah, Music Wed, 16 May 2012 21:46:02 GMT A gastronomic Summer of Love kicks off with the Great GoogaMooga festival in Prospect Park, where star chefs are the headliners, upstaging the musical acts. |
| Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S. Thu, 17 May 2012 11:21:55 GMT Non-Hispanic white births are no longer a majority in the United States, a tipping point that has implications for politics, the economy and a nation’s identity. |
| Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? Wed, 16 May 2012 21:26:01 GMT Psychologists now believe fledgling psychopaths can be identified as early as kindergarten. The hope is to teach these children empathy before it’s too late. |
| Brain Disease Is Found in Veterans Exposed to Bombs Thu, 17 May 2012 05:46:01 GMT The same degenerative brain disease found in football players and boxers has been found in veterans exposed to roadside bombs, a finding with potentially profound implications. |
| Well: Coffee Drinkers May Live Longer Thu, 17 May 2012 03:35:35 GMT The largest-ever study of the relationship between coffee consumption and health showed that regular coffee drinkers had a lower risk of dying from a variety of diseases. |
| On View: Exhibition Traces the Emergence of Jews as Medical Innovators Wed, 16 May 2012 18:10:03 GMT An exhibition offers a look at the emergence of European and American Jews as innovators in medicine, despite their status as outsiders frequently scorned by the establishment. |
| Op-Ed Columnist: Dancing With Derivatives Wed, 16 May 2012 19:10:15 GMT Othello learned that reputation is all. Now, after a $2 billion trading blunder, Jamie Dimon is learning that. |
| Easy Steps to Preserving Produce Wed, 16 May 2012 18:30:04 GMT Spring is the time to try preservation, or canning, and it’s not as scary as it sounds. |
| With Fajas, Tight as Corsets, a Shortcut to Hourglass Figure Is Rediscovered Wed, 16 May 2012 19:13:03 GMT The faja, from the Spanish word for wrap, has become popular as a tight, form-fitting shortcut to curves. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.