Word: colorable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...duty at any point in the day and a doctor on the night shift knowing little about a patient whose surgeon worked the day shift. Dr. Alfred Casale, Geisinger's chief of cardiothoracic surgery, tells stories of surgeons who don't even conform to the same rules for color-coding wires in a heart device, making it awfully hard for an intensive-care technician to do repairs if something goes wrong. "When there's a complication at 2 in the morning," he says, "too often nurses can't ask, 'What's his problem?' until they ask, 'Whose is he?'" (Read...
Last Thursday, students gathered for a colorful conversation at the Harvard Foundation-sponsored student panel The Color of Love: Interracial Dating at Harvard. The discussion centered around the intricacies of Harvard’s interracial dating scene–covering the beautiful, the awkward, and the absurd...
...close to the camera: the first three buttons of your shirt should be visible, or else you risk looking like a floating head, counsels Priscilla Shanks, a coach for broadcast journalists and public speakers. Most important, do a dry run with a friend to check your color, sound and facial expressions - neutral often comes off as glum onscreen. (See pictures of vintage computers...
These statistics underline the outsized role that the color of one’s skin plays in the college admissions process and highlight the need for a fundamental transition of American affirmative-action policies toward a socioeconomically oriented program to supplant the race-based status...
...title refers, I assume, merely to where it is edited, not to where it probes for material. New York-based careers sustained on writing alone—the path of independent-minded fellows like John Updike, Edmund Wilson, and John O’Hara gutsy enough to demand color pieces from magazine bigwigs and lucky enough to actually get them—have fallen off several levels in probability; many of America’s brightest minds are now holed up in grad programs, grading intro-level Expository Writing papers and picking away at theses on Milton in the hopes...