Word: cobalt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stagelight casts an almost messianic shadow on the back of the stage. Set and lighting, in fact, hold Ibsen's character-oriented play to a high-wire of beauty. Piping classical music brings out a gracile quatro of stage hands between acts one and two: They lay out light-cobalt platforms which in turn absorb a dull, icy lighting scheme. As the A.R.T.'s actors quickly sketch their tragedy (an uber-fable about ambition and hubricguilt), its stagecraft is relentlessly Scandinavian, so that the dark, philosophically neurotic A.R.T. paradigm feels like nothing more than atypical (or stereotypical) Norwegian aesthetic...
...children's easel, decorated with a picture of a snowman, is thus featured in one of the windows; in another, stacks of cobalt blue glassware-big sellers in the Square-are prominent...
...well as salmonella, listeria and other dangerous pathogens implicated in the millions of cases of food poisoning in the U.S. that cost some 9,000 lives each year. Dubbed "cold pasteurization" by the food industry, the controversy-plagued technology uses powerful gamma rays released by the common medical radioisotope cobalt 60 or streams of high-energy electrons from an accelerator. The bug-zapping power of the process is undisputed. The ionizing radiation, millions of times stronger than ordinary X rays, kills molds, bacteria and small insects by wrecking their DNA, while leaving the exposed food virtually unchanged and radiation free...
...Marguerite Michaels. The main message is, without question, he is going to Kinshasa. Meanwhile, another branch of Kabila's army was closing on Lubumbashi, capital of the mineral-rich province Shaba. Kabila will be welcomed as always, not least by the Western companies that hope to revive the crumbling cobalt and copper mining operations in the region. "Kabila has what he calls a "commission" set up in each town, especially mining towns, that his forces liberate," says Michaels. "He talks to businessmen, to foreign companies, trying to get the mines up and working again. He dickers his own deals." That...
Such penury seems baffling when viewed against the backdrop of Zaire's extravagant natural endowments. Beneath its vast territory lie 60% of the earth's cobalt and much of the world's supply of industrial-grade diamonds, plus substantial reserves of zinc, copper, manganese and gold. But ever since the prices of metals began dropping in the 1970s, Zaire's economic progress has been frozen. Stagnation turned into catastrophe in the late 1980s, when the cold war ended and the Western powers that had bankrolled Mobutu as a bulwark against communism informed him that his credit...