Word: compacting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...They are the hundreds of mostly young, underpaid campaign staffers and volunteers who serve as the foot soldiers for the presidential candidates vying in the upcoming fiercely-contested Iowa caucuses. Across the state, they can be easily spotted - driving compact cars sporting out-of-state plates and political bumper stickers, clutching cups of the best overpriced coffee available, handing out campaign paraphernalia and knocking on doors...
...fellow Adams House resident showed up at the door, promising better lighting. Getting up at 10 a.m. in January allows for little more than six hours of sunlight a day. How could I resist? Off went my old light bulbs, in came the new—strange, corkscrew-shaped compact fluorescent lights. Under the guise of warmer lighting, I had taken my first, unknowing step towards ending global warming. Like that, an insidious green monster snuck into our unguarded two-room triple on Bow Street. My bedroom became a front in the environmental war.This fall, the green monster made itself...
...tempting to turn to plot summaries and compact editions of novels in order to be able to spit out impressive information at cocktail parties down the line. Of course people are free to buy abridged books for their own personal pleasure. But when they finish, they should make no pretense to having understood the author’s literary intentions...
...obstacles to a very 21st century challenge: flying a plane around the world powered by nothing but the rays of the sun. If the Solar Impulse project goes to plan, in 2011 a gangly aircraft with the wingspan of an Airbus A380 and the weight of a compact car will attempt to circle the globe in about a month at an average speed of 43 m.p.h. (70 km/h), landing only five times along...
...after-dinner diversions, head for La Boutique, tel: (52-222) 482 0603, a dance club with international DJs. Come daytime, meander though the city's compact colonial center, passing its 17th century Catedral de Puebla. Check out the antique shops lining Callejón de los Sapos or splurge on intricately detailed, floral-patterned Talavera tiles at the Uriarte Talavera Factory, www.uriartetalavera.com.mx, which has been in business since 1824. True, Puebla's charms are a world away from Mexico City's all-hours action. But for a growing number of cognoscenti, that's no bad thing...