Word: ashes
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Perhaps Hemingway had trouble with the prospect of publishing the fantasies he was entertaining. His hero, David Bourne, is a young writer whose wife cuts her hair as short as a man's and dyes it ash-white, and persuades him to exchange sex roles in a way whose mechanics are not explained. The man is to be the woman and the woman is to act the man. In bed, they do "devil things," also unexplained, and the wife brings a lesbian lover into their menage...
Last summer Walker, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University medical school, was looking for baboon fossils, when he spotted the skull fragment. By studying volcanic ash and other bones nearby, his colleagues determined the skull's age. Its pedigree was trickier. It has the structure of a late australopithecine: wide palate, huge rear molars, enormous cheekbones and a pronounced crest of bone running along the top of the skull. But other features -- a for- ward-thrusting muzzle, an orangutan-size brain and an apelike jaw structure -- are primitive. Leakey believes this mosaic suggests, as he has argued for years...
Meteors, which are asteroids or cometary debris that has entered the atmosphere, continually shower the earth. Most of them are small and either break up or are burned to ash by frictional heat generated by their plunge through the atmosphere. But, explains Shoemaker, the incineration of larger asteroids is far more violent. An asteroid 80 ft. across, striking the atmosphere at 50,000 m.p.h., compresses the air in its path so much that in effect the asteroid is stopped dead in its tracks, converting kinetic energy almost instantaneously into heat, light and a powerful shock wave. That causes a tremendous...
...medicine to pay their way. He stopped admitting virtually any warm undergraduate body that showed up, and began cutting enrollment from 12,000 toward 8,500, setting stiffer standards for entering freshmen. At the same time, Miami established schools of communications, architecture and international studies. Associate Provost James Ash openly admits that the purpose of the changes has been to sell the school to a higher grade of students. "It's not that we're virtuous," he says. "Marketing conditions force us to do this...
...prospective scientists by stressing research opportunities in such regionally important fields as weather science, marine biology, tropical diseases and geriatric ailments among Florida's huge senior citizen population. "We're rapidly becoming this generation's Stanford," exults Foote. But if Miami's reach still exceeds this bold grasp, Ash is convinced the school's recent steps have been in the right direction: "We're not educating the masses anymore." Apparently not. Tuition will...