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Time to cut off aid to Egypt? (The Week)
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:28:00 GMT
The Week - As tensions rise between Egyptian authorities and U.S. pro-democracy groups, Cairo risks losing the Western aid its military depends on
Good day, bad day: January 31, 2012 (The Week)
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:10:00 GMT
The Week - Israeli scientists learn to breed black tomatoes, while a top liberal arts college admits to cheating — and more winners and losers of today's news cycle
The X Factor bloodbath: 'An admission of failure'? (The Week)
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:00:00 GMT
The Week - After an underwhelming first season, Simon Cowell hands pink slips to host Steve Jones, as well as judges Nicole Scherzinger and Paula Abdul
Are teens ditching Facebook for Twitter? (The Week)
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:48:00 GMT
The Week - More and more young people are tweeting, especially as their parents ease into Mark Zuckerberg's social network
Sniffing smelly T-shirts: The new way to find a soulmate? (The Week)
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:08:00 GMT
The Week - An Atlanta artist decides to try following her nose to love, creating a matchmaking party based on little-understood magnetic aromas
The Catholic Church vs. 'ObamaCare' (The Week)
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:46:00 GMT
The Week - The feds will soon require religiously affiliated hospitals and colleges to offer insurance coverage for contraception. Does that violate the first amendment?
Obama's 5 biggest mistakes (The Week)
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:30:00 GMT
The Week - The president's Republican opponents will surely spend 2012 hammering away at his failures. So what exactly are they?
Washington's sea lion murder mystery (The Week)
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:00:00 GMT
The Week - Eight protected marine mammals with gunshot wounds are found dead in the Puget Sound area. Who would do such a thing?
Gingrich, Romney and Paul Are Good, Bad and Ugly at Debate (ContributorNetwork)
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:24:43 GMT
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | The GOP debate Monday brought to a head some of the major issues and brought out strong reactions to the candidates. With the candidate pack reduced to five, each had more time to speak, self-promote and attack opponents. The debate also proved what a circus the political arena has become when the audience became such an active participant that it almost needed a podium of its own.
Phobos-Grunt Falls into the Pacific; Russians Blame America (ContributorNetwork)
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:24:39 GMT
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | ABC News reports the remnants of the Russian Phobos-Grunt probe crashed somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, thus ending the latest attempt by Russia to revive its planetary probe program. The Russians said most of it burned in the atmosphere.
Rand Paul 'Detained' at Nashville Airport, Refuses Pat-Down (ContributorNetwork)
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:24:30 GMT
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Tea party favorite Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., made a political statement Monday morning when he refused a fully body pat-down after an abnormality was found in a full body scanner. According to a Facebook message posted on Paul's profile, which appeared around 10 a.m. Eastern time, he "is being detained at the Nashville Airport by the TSA [Transportation Security Administration]."
Mitt Romney Savors His Victory in New Hampshire (ContributorNetwork)
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:24:24 GMT
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Savoring his victory in the New Hampshire primary, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was understandably ebullient. He had been denied the same victory in one of his home states in 2008 by the then future nominee Sen. John McCain.
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail (ContributorNetwork)
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:24:23 GMT
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | According to U.S. News, a poll was taken over the New Year's holiday that asked people what event they feared might happen in the upcoming year of 2012. By far more people at 33 percent feared the re-election of President Barack Obama than any other event.
Is Facebook really worth $100 billion? (The Week)
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:31:00 GMT
The Week - The social network is expected to file its IPO this week in what is seen as a "defining moment" for Silicon Valley. But are analysts overestimating its value?
Good day, bad day: January 30, 2012 (The Week)
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:28:00 GMT
The Week - Music fans celebrate Jack White's return, while football fans admit they'd miss their child's birth to watch the Super Bowl — and more winners and losers of today's news cycle

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 Word of the day 

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.

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