A portmanteau is a word that is formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words, e.g., breakfast + lunch = brunch.

75% of highway accidents occur in rural areas.

Joachim now holds more than 16 Guinness records, including the longest duration balancing on one foot (76 hours, 40 minutes) and bowling (100 hours). He does it, he says, to raise awareness of suffering children.

More than 90% of ethanol produced today comes from corn, even though the fuel can be made from a broad range of biomass materials ranging from wheat and barley to woodchips, waste lumber, and switch grass.

The entire human skeleton is thought to be replaced every 10 years or so in adults.

This article appears in November 25 • 2005.

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