Word: circularity
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...question with their usual indifference to public taste. The pioneer modernist Le Corbusier wrote a famous essay in praise of "Mass Production Houses." He just never got around to producing one. Geodesic-dome inventor Buckminster Fuller spent years tinkering with his Dymaxion House. But he insisted on making it circular and steel walled. Americans weren't ready for a house that looked like a flying saucer...
...been a long, circular journey for Dimon, 47, who was born in New York City with financial data encoded in his genes. Dimon's Greek-American grandfather and father were stockbrokers catering to fellow immigrants in the city, and it was through his dad Theodore, who worked with Weill at Shearson, that Dimon met his eventual mentor. While studying economics (his other major) at Tufts University, Dimon wrote a term paper about one of Weill's earliest takeovers and used it to persuade the Wall Street veteran to give him a summer internship...
...heterosexual relationship that men and women tend to experience sexuality somewhat differently. So where Masters and Johnson saw sexual arousal as a linear progression toward orgasm, researchers like Dr. Rosemary Basson of the University of British Columbia argued in 1999 that women, at least, operate in a more circular pattern. Desire can precede stimulation or be triggered by it. Satisfaction is possible at any of the stages. And orgasm isn't necessarily the ultimate goal...
...they are physiological. Dr. Julia Heiman, a psychologist and director of the Reproductive and Sexual Medicine Clinic at the University of Washington Medical School, is one of a growing number of researchers who think it's misguided to see men as simple and linear and women as complex and circular. "I don't think we've taken the time to talk to men about what desire is," she says. "If they are emotional about their sexuality, they don't feel in step with other...
...functions as the 2nd Battalion's Tactical Operations Center. During the summer, the troops filled the swimming pool and built a sand volleyball court on the grounds. Lieut. Colonel William Rabena, the battalion's stout commanding officer, sleeps in an egg-shaped room dubbed the Love Shack, on a circular canopied...