Word: acidly
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...touch the edge of scientific inquiry and bounce back off, like a projectile not quite captured by a body’s gravity. Those of us “in science”—the very term conjures images of a chemist fighting off thick fumes of acid or a geologist emerging from a month-long stay in a sticky cave—find ourselves in a world misunderstood by so many others, even ourselves. The frustrations of the intellectual isolation are numerous: I can barely understand my own work at times, yet alone explain...
...Traditionally Harvard is the enemy,” says William Bloomstein, one of the four representatives of the Agassiz Committee on the Impacts of Development (ACID) who negotiated the deal with Harvard. “Rather than that approach, we decided to engage Harvard in a collaborative discussion, to understand and to figure out where there were mutual interests that could...
...felt very strongly and stated it often throughout the process that we needed to go back to the neighborhood,” says Agassiz resident Miriam Goldberg, one of the members of the ACID negotiating team. “My understanding is that we did that in as many ways as we could...When you work with the community there will always be some individuals who feel they were not heard enough...
...ACID also conducted three community surveys over the course of two years, which Bloomstein says were used to gauge the residents’ priorities and establish the frameworks for the negotiations...
...open-toe season. But this year foot care may cost you an arm and a leg. "The foot is the new face," says Dr. Suzanne Levine, owner of the Institute Beaute, where she gives clients foot facials. The $225 treatment includes a mineral-oil-and-Epsom-salt scrub, glycolic-acid peel, intensive tissue-repair cream (applied with an ultrasound wand) and callus-blasting microdermabrasion. Savvy strutters whose feet are sore from their Manolos are hobbling to doctors to get the balls of their feet injected with collagen, Restylane and Botox. The extra cushioning allows for hours of pain-free high...