'Leave Your Grenades at Home'
It's all so darkly twisted and Kafkaesque. As a non American looking in I can't imagine that in a 100 years some history student reading his text book will ever know how twistedly, wickedly funny and scary and sad it all is.
Gamesmanship is the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win or gain a serious advantage in a game or sport. It has been described as "Pushing the rules to the limit without getting caught, using whatever dubious methods possible to achieve the desired end" (Lumpkin, Stoll and Beller, 1994:92). It may be inferred that the term derives from the idea of playing for the game (i.e., to win at any cost) as opposed to sportsmanship, which derives from the idea of playing for sport. The term originates from Stephen Potter's humorous 1947 book, The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship (or the Art of Winning Games without Actually Cheating).
This smacks of cold war gamesmanship. I've known a few spooks and what they had in common was a deep seated sense of gamesmanship.
LADEE will end its mission by crashing into the Moon.
Will the crash site be chosen in some hope of finding ice on the moon? Finding ice on the moon is crucial to a moon base isn't it? There's been no mention whether searching for signs of ice is part of LADEE's mission.
By the onset of puberty (around age 12), language acquisition has typically been solidified and it becomes more difficult to learn a language in the same way a native speaker would.
It seems children are open to learning languages from a very early age. There doesn't seem to be a low limit on the number of languages an infant can acquire. Given the benefits of speaking a second language and how effortlessly children seem to acquire second languages it seems like throwing away a birthright not to have a child acquire at least a second language. It carries many benefits and seems to be one of those things that look good on a resume.
some trains actually have decent bars.
Yea, I gotta say bar cars are great. People seem less guarded and more willing to strike up a conversation.
What is algebra, exactly? Is it one of those three-cornered things? -- J.M. Barrie