Word: carbons
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...loft. On Sept. 7, 1927, Farnsworth painted a square of glass black and scratched a straight line on the center. In another room, Pem's brother, Cliff Gardner, dropped the slide between the Image Dissector (the camera tube that Farnsworth had invented earlier that year) and a hot, bright, carbon arc lamp. Farnsworth, Pem and one of the investors, George Everson, watched the receiver. They saw the straight-line image and then, as Cliff turned the slide 90[degrees], they saw it move--which is to say they saw the first all-electronic television picture ever transmitted...
This culinary misconception, a paradox widely known but rarely admitted in polite conversation, is a carbon copy of the European counterpart. In the US we adore fresh Italian pasta and rich French desserts to no end, while Europeans, especially the youth, flock to crowded McDonald's for the phony Le Big Mac and outrageously overpriced American soft drinks. As far as we are concerned, River folk should indulge their xenophobia at the over-commercialized Friday's Americana Bar and leave us to enjoy traditional European pub life at Christopher's and Cambridge Common...
...novelty always wears off, and skeptics challenge: isn't Temple just a carbon copy of Grafton? Why don't Quad socialites just suck it up, make the 10-minute walk and get the real thing...
...emphasis in the kitchen is on experimentation, and indeed Mike discourages you from shackling yourself to the recipe. (Perhaps this explains why the Friday clam chowder seems so inconsistent from House to House.) Yes, some of our attempts at stir-fry ended up as clumps of carbon stuck to the skillet, and most of our "omelets" looked more like bad scrambled eggs. But most of learned something, if only how to cut a wide variety of vegetables...
...environmental justice. This rapidly emerging field considers who are the winners and the losers of environmental change and whether that status is deserved. An illustrative example is again the topic of climate change, which is caused primarily by the increase in the content of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. An important effect of global warming is the rise of global sea levels, which is a prospect that severely threatens many small island nations and peninsulas. Bangladesh is a country whose coastline would significantly regress inland with a sea level rise of only a few centimeters, thereby...