Word: carbonization
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After crossing a highway-spanning overpass and inhaling the requisite volume of carbon monoxide gas," (after all it is New York City), the runners begin the 1.5 mile loop of the famous "back hills." These consist of a seemingly endless span of winding slopes that eventually return the runner to the bridge, around a sharp downhill and to the final 400-meter stretch...
Cohn chose to limit her study of black to prints because she believes the intensity of "blackness" in a carbon or intaglio print is substantially different from the more fragile writing inks and watercolor pigments. Also because prints are made from a single layer of black and tend to form an opaque, continuous surface, they project a constancy and immutability not found in drawing or painting...
...Crimson seemed as if it would ride its momentum into another win yesterday, when Gudeman and Stauffer converted a carbon copy of their play on Saturday, giving Harvard a 1-0 lead over Fairfield under five minutes...
...strikingly similar. Both cut their teeth in Dad's campaigns; both are flush with money gathered with the help of the decades-old Bush fund-raising apparatus that covers all 50 states; both use operatives from their father's previous campaigns. On the issues their campaigns are virtual carbon copies. They consider the No. 1 issue to be crime, especially juvenile crime. They call for longer sentences and expansion of their states' overcrowded jails. They champion the right of local communities to run their own school systems. They say welfare should be cut off after two years; they oppose...
There would be little time for that. Two months after receiving his Pulitzer, Carter would be dead of carbon-monoxide poisoning in Johannesburg, a suicide at 33. His red pickup truck was parked near a small river where he used to play as a child; a green garden hose attached to the vehicle's exhaust funneled the fumes inside. "I'm really, really sorry," he explained in a note left on the passenger seat beneath a knapsack. "The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist...