And of all the artifacts that have aided cognition, the most important is the development of writing, or more properly, of notational systems: number systems, writing, calendars, notational systems for mathematics, engineering, music and dance.
When we ran that Curve 8900 review a couple weeks back, we were taken aback by the number of people writing in to ask what kind of phone was pictured to the right of the Curve in our lead-off image.
"We're writing a record number of offers, but we're not seeing a record number of closings and that's because it's so competitive, " said Glenn Kelman, chief executive of real-estate brokerage Redfin Corp. in Seattle with offices in 14 states.
The number of American universities offering creative-writing degrees has quadrupled in the past 20 years to 285.
Dorough ended up writing "Three's a Magic Number" and other well known videos.
However, Elance attracts a good number of professionals with specialized skills in niches such as writing speeches and developing websites.
The reason for this is not my stylish writing, but that attracting new clients is the number one challenge for entrepreneurs.
Mercury General Corp. is engaged primarily in writing all risk classifications of automobile insurance in a number of states, principally California.
And since writing Critical Decisions, I have received an increasing number of emails from people who say the book has helped them through their own medical journeys.
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Recently, researchers writing in Physical Review B suggested that arranging a number of tiny cloaks in a two-dimensional grid could be put to use in biomedicine and sensing, as well as traditional camouflage.
He pointed to a recent Court of Appeal ruling that session musician Bobby Valentino should be recognised for his part in writing the violin riff on the Bluebells' 1993 number one hit Young At Heart.
One of the things I like best about writing for Forbes, for example, is that the number of folks who read my articles is prominently posted.
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And although in recent years, a growing number of women poets have broken into the traditional male preserve of writing in cynghanedd, none of them have succeeded in taking the eisteddfod's main prize.
It is meticulously researched, and compellingly written, and of this writing residing on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list at Number 6.
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Writing at Gameranx, Ian Miles Cheong points to a number of the other obvious flaws in the hoax letter, but sounds off with some words of warning.
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But the most important result for Mr Heyerdahl was that money from his writing allowed him to spend a vastly interesting life pursuing a number of unorthodox notions, some of them plausible, some of them cranky, all of them infuriating to those whose theories he was challenging.
She said she'd gone on a chat site for teens, started writing to a boy she'd never met and gave him her cellphone number.
Coming in at number 4 is Kiss Kiss Bang Bang , a grossly underrated movie with terrific performances and snappy, hilarious writing.
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And he says, well, can you go home and get permission from your mother, get something in writing stating that you can travel, and give me your mother's address and phone number and all this stuff and saying that you can travel, you're allowed to travel with me and have her to sign it and date it.
Writing in the latest issue of The Lancet, the doctors called for a study into reducing the number of inappropriate admissions.
His writing style did, however, give the production team cause for concern, because of the increasing number of gay characters he was including in storylines.
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