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...sandstone complex was not deposited over hours or days," she says. "Deposition occurred over a very long time period...
...Abhisit Vejjajiva, Thailand's new Prime Minister, hasn't helped much. He has extended an emergency decree that makes it hard for rights-abusing soldiers and police to be prosecuted, and his vow to boost the halal-food industry and other local projects does not address the conflict's complex roots. By blankly rejecting Amnesty International's recent claims that the Thai military was systematically torturing Malay Muslims, Abhisit also struck a yoga position familiar in Thai politics: saving face by burying your head in the sand...
...know what the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth is?" Marian Diamond asks her students on the first day of anatomy class as she casually opens a flowery hatbox and lifts out a preserved human brain. "This mass only weighs 3 lb., and yet it has the capacity to conceive of a universe a billion light-years across. Isn't that phenomenal...
Yale: 1. School spirit? Check! Deep-seated inferiority complex? Of course not! Who told you that? BOOLAH-BOOLAH DANNY BOY! 2. Prefrosh. The place your annoying prefrosh roommate can’t stop talking about because she knows she’s going there for sure because the campus is so much prettier than Harvard’s and the people are way smarter and cooler and hotter and she’s too good for Harvard anyway but her parents made her visit…etc. Synonyms. Stanford, Princeton, Brown. Antonyms...
...spiritual: “No one is able to describe this gold to bronze to charcoal, no one. / So move along, boy, just move along.” He confounds the problem of understanding life with the problem of writing about it—its subject matter is too complex and ever-shifting for the human abilities to capture.Wright’s attempt to understand life through words draws him to songs from the folk tradition. His poems often go beyond imitating folk rhythms and diction to quoting directly from songs. Pieces of lyrics waft through his poems...