Word: alterity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Paul Epstein, associate director for the CHGE, added a scientific perspective to the dialogue. A gradual rise in temperature, an increase in night temperatures and a greater variability around mean temperatures are all indications that global warming has already begun to alter the world's climate, he said...
...when it's at an angle to its floor position. Its perimeter, in rising, will have generated a curving shape, an extremely twisted or "torqued" elliptical cylinder. Not a section of a cone (the cone diminishes towards its vertex) but something else, a curvature whose radius does not alter but whose walls constantly change their angle. Then make it out of steel plates, 2 in. thick. You will end up with a shape that has not been used in sculpture before, and that has no precedents in other arts like pottery (it can't be thrown on a wheel...
...frequenting chat rooms and other multiuser domains, writing e-mail, surfing the Web, playing games. These can serve as a haven for workers from procrastination, boredom and feelings of isolation at work; the fantasy world they offer can be an attractive alternative to the daily grind. "It's an altered state of reality," reports Young. "It's like a drug rush." Depression, she and others believe, can be a result of--not the cause of--compulsive computer use: after someone has been parading his impressive alter ego around chat rooms or playing a power game, coming back to reality...
While the HSTO is able to alter specific rates, it is ultimately constrained by a mandate for balanced budget and external costs that prevent it from being competitive with market offerings...
...actor into a thespian, JIM CARREY may be taking this Method-acting thing a tad too far. Recently, we reported that on the set of the ANDY KAUFMAN biopic Man on the Moon, Carrey asked for two separate trailers, one to play Kaufman and one to play Kaufman's alter ego, Tony Clifton. Last week, while filming a scene with wrestler Jerry Lawler, a bruiser who once put Kaufman in a neck brace, Carrey spontaneously spit on the wrestler in an unscripted move. Lawler, apparently also deep in character, charged Carrey and put him in a neck lock. The actor...