Word: circularity
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...each round, three participants entered a circular "rink," five feet in diameter, bordered by plexiglass with a puck in the middle. The goal for each robot was to be the last to touch the puck when the bell went off after 60 seconds...
Should the gray wolf, today an endangered species in most of the U.S., be re-established in Yellowstone? An old stockman at a meeting at Laramie, Wyo., shakes with rage at the notion; the idea is like reintroducing smallpox. But to wolf partisans, the bedrock argument is a brooding, circular truth: without wolves, there are no wolves. These complex, mysterious animals are their own justification. Beyond that, biologists see predators as balance wheels in ecosystems. No wolves mean too many elk, which is what Yellowstone has now, starving by the thousands in winter die-offs...
...only way you raise money is with a personal call--letters go in the circular file," says Harvard fundraiser Ernest E. Monrad '51. "Then, you take them to lunch...
...Globe, a circular theater where Shakespeare staged many of his plays, was pulled down in 1644. And for centuries, literary and dramatic scholars have based their assumptions on the original staging of Shakespeare's plays on old sketches...
...kinder, gentler Sweeney was unimaginable until Susan H. Schulman's intimate reconsideration arrived on Broadway last week. This time the tale comes by way of Dickens. London's gaslit windows ring the circular seating. Tattered gray laundry sags from clotheslines all around. Turbulent street life spills into the aisles. Gloomy, angry and unjust Sweeney's world remains, but human connections now matter...