Word: absorbency
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...truth about Monica--are packaged like fragile crystal, surrounded by rhetorical Styrofoam. There are many sentences, sometimes whole paragraphs, that snooze along reflexively: "I wanted to guard the social safety net--health care, education, pensions, wages and jobs--that was in danger of fraying for citizens less able to absorb the changes resulting from the high-tech revolution and a global consumer culture." Living History is, first and last, a political memoir, and the leaden formalities of the genre apply. It is also the memoir of an active--and very ambitious--politician. The Senator is looking to augment her political...
...Unlike sunscreen, which falls under the FDA's watch, sun-protective clothing is largely unregulated. Even so, the industry has its own voluntary standards. The weave in sun-protective clothing is extra tight, so ultraviolet rays can't penetrate. Some companies treat fabric with chemicals that reflect or absorb UV beams, in several cases using the same compounds that keep car seats from fading. That's not to say ordinary clothing can't do the trick. Off-the-rack blue jeans, for example, provide an SPF of more than 1,000. --By Janice M. Horowitz
...this new view, genes allow the human mind to learn, remember, imitate, imprint language, absorb culture and express instincts. Genes are not puppet masters or blueprints, nor are they just the carriers of heredity. They are active during life; they switch one another on and off; they respond to the environment. They may direct the construction of the body and brain in the womb, but then almost at once, in response to experience, they set about dismantling and rebuilding what they have made. They are both the cause and the consequence of our actions...
...taxpayers, and until the U.S. levels the playing field, perhaps with a "health-care surcharge," Ross maintains, virtually all large old-line companies that have downsized to stay competitive--Boeing, Goodyear, Kodak, Lucent and Xerox, to name a few--will have to cut benefits as they fight to absorb the outsize costs of their retired work forces. Only 62% of large employers provided health benefits for retirees 65 and older in 2001, vs. 80% a decade earlier, according to a survey by consultants Hewitt Associates. Eight of 10 large employers say they will probably increase the amount employees...
...Persepolis is told through the eyes of a child. And that is the ideal way for the uninitiated reader to absorb the whiplash of Iran's history. Wide-eyed, Satrapi as a young girl demands an explanation for the crimes of the Shah, and then for the violence of the revolution, and finally for the bombing of her neighborhood during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war. The country - and Satrapi and her family - career from one ideology to the next. She is taught from first grade on that God chose the Shah; every time his name is mentioned...