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Pick

Slang; a stock or other security that an analyst recommends his or her clients buy. For example, an analyst who is bullish on tech stocks may choose Google and Facebook as his picks.

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DeParle's judicious, sensitive eye picks apart the pathologies of life in the ghetto and the minute failings of programs that have undermined the government's promise of alleviating the problems of poverty, while remaining essentially upbeat about the prospect of improving the ghettos, one of America's next great moral challenges.

The Washington Monthly's 2004 Annual Political Book Award winner

In columns for The Skeptic, which he publishes, and Scientific American, he regularly picks apart ideas that are dubious but nevertheless widely held.

Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown

Essentially a meditation on contingency and loss, 16 minutes is also an acutely self-aware and self-referential work in which Strom picks apart her own role and persona as an artist.