Word: astroturfs
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...lifetime sorting through those principles to see which ones had to go. Foster's buildings tend toward the serene and Cartesian. Koolhaas is apt to arrive at the ruptured and irregular. Foster is given to sleek materials and finely honed finishes. Koolhaas isn't above slapping what looks like AstroTurf on an outdoor terrace at the Wyly. Both of them have scored the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor, but, to put it mildly, not for the same reasons. (See the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium...
...student body. Beyond the improvement to classroom atmosphere are the gains in graduate preparedness: No doubt, future classes of HSPH grads will be better armed to tackle the actual problems of public health. Having to deal with real case studies—from the health repercussions of Astroturf to the dangers of the international sex trade—will effectively combat the insular nature of academic study, which too often looks at single issues in isolation. Instead, case studies will force students to take into account all of the real-life problems that complicate public health issues at hand. This...
...endorsement-in part, I imagine, because he's not shy about saying that one of the biggest things Hillary has going for her is Bill, who ranks up with Reagan in the Haggard pantheon and not only because the former President used to have a pickup truck with Astroturf in the back. "He cared about this country, about our problems," Haggard said, with a twinkle. "And I figure that whatever she doesn't know, he does...
...finished the play off,” Murphy said. “Not just made the play, but finished the thing in the endzone.”But when Harvard lined up for the ensuing extra point, sophomore kicker Patrick Long slipped on Schoellkopf Field’s Astroturf, sending the ball into the Crimson offensive line and then bouncing into the hands of a Big Red defender, who returned it over 90 yards for the safety. It was the first in a series of late-half Harvard meltdowns—a Cornell touchdown, a Pizzotti pick...
Long converted the second one, but on the third the Astroturf at Schoellkopf Field got to him, and he tripped before his kick was blocked...