Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crimson: Just a School Color...
...keeping up a certain image and, more meaningfully, perpetuating their values and traditions. And the student activist movements of the '60s left us with a legacy of questioning University policies, ranging from Harvard's investments in apartheid-era South Africa to the dearth of tenured women and people of color in the ranks of the Faculty...
...signs of a hydrothermal system found by the Surveyor hint at a thicker, more Earth-like atmosphere during the planet's first couple billion years. High temperatures may also be one reason the planet is now red. The Greeks thought the Martian color meant war and destruction; Surveyor may end up proving it means creation...
Feingold does. It has come so far: he is the secret society's flak. His opening gambit is to invite a reporter to a gathering of worldwide Masonic grand masters at the New York Grand Lodge. And the event is grandly international: 75 delegations in Masonic aprons of every color and design, Lebanese hobnobbing with Cote d'Ivoirans and multitudinous Brazilians, engaged for the first time (although the cabal-obsessed may dispute this) in establishing an international Masonic coordination. Still Feingold can't forgo bragging about the domestic organization. "Fourteen Presidents have been Masons," he says; "nine signers...
Apple's style-conscious designers spent weeks refining everything from the color (they call it Bondi blue, after an Australian beach) to the size of the translucent baffles on the front (they wanted to give it the illusion of depth but not be too transparent). They even consulted an expert in candy making to learn how to reliably reproduce its tricky color on production lines. If the final result strikes some users as looking more like a beach toy than a computer, that's just fine with design chief Jonathan Ive. "Steve said, 'Don't make it look like...