Word: circuitousness
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...York. While the 94 models walking the runway are all habitués of those venues, not one face in the front row at this show (make that shows?five of them back-to-back, with a break for supper) is familiar to anyone who frequents the fashion circuit...
...couple of my friends on my indoor club team were playing and one asked me if I wanted to play,†Kuld said. “I fell in love with it.â€The Ontario Volleyball Association (OVA), which organizes the circuit Kuld plays in, hosts a number of beach volleyball tournaments each summer. During the season, two-player teams accumulate points, compete in a provincial tournament, and if they’re good enough, get a shot at a national title.During the summer of 2006, Kuld and his partner Jonathan Turalinski took first place...
...York, Cai has moved on to many other kinds of art, including dreamlike sculptures and big theatrical installations like Head On--dozens of papier-mâché wolves galloping headlong into a glass wall. In the same period, he's also become a star on the global-exhibition circuit, a position the Guggenheim show certifies. The show also draws out the apocalyptic mood in a piece like Head On. It's not only gunpowder that gets burned in Cai's work. It's whole social orders being blown away...
...piezoelectrics pale next to the biggest opportunity to scavenge energy: heat. The thermoelectric effect--temperature differences between two ends of a circuit can be converted directly to voltage--allows us to recover some of that lost energy. For years the technology was too costly to be widely used outside extreme examples like the space program, but new companies like the California-based Thermo Life can produce energy from relatively small temperature differentials. Right now it's used mostly to power rechargeable batteries in wireless devices, but as the technology improves, it could begin to harness the vast amount of energy...
...French director Michel Gondry arrived at MIT to screen his latest film, “Be Kind Rewind,†the very first thing he wanted to do was meet a girl named Star Simpson. Simpson was arrested on Sept. 21, 2007 at the airport for wearing a circuit board with LED lights, which airport employees mistook for a bomb. To law enforcement, “she seemed out of her mind,†Gondry said in an interview at MIT on Feb. 4, “and I can really relate to her craziness...