Word: construction
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...family-oriented aspects of his character, a real Mamma’s boy with a penchant for family team-crossword games. Instead of fleshing out Cook’s character, such quirks only undermine his “player” image. Binoche encounters similar problems, failing to construct a clear identity for her character. Her whimsical nature comes across as confusion rather than free-spirited independence. The script is of no assistance here. Binoche’s first scene, in which she says she is looking for a book that’s “right...
...craze reached a feverish intensity and stoked demand for fake birds.“You would try to beat out your neighbor by having more and better oddities,” Berry said.A company in London used the charred dodo remains and a few archival drawings to construct fake dodos and fill the void in the market. Since the drawings they used may have depicted dead, bloated dodos, today’s image of the dodo could be as skewed as a funhouse mirror.Around the turn of the century, Harvard’s Natural History Museum decided it needed...
Stonehouse wants to construct a 5,000 sq. ft. residence on the park, which has been undeveloped since the adjacent houses were built...
...half hours after Alexandra M. Hays ’’09 is given 24 dollars and 24 hours to construct an outfit for FM’s fashion challenge, she is poking through the sea of $1.50 a pound clothing the Garment District. Hays is on a mission to find something “black and silky,” which she plans to transform into a dress with a collage of Drew Faust’s face on the back. She collects items haphazardly, but balks when she realizes that the clothes weigh more than 20 pounds...
...vaccine. Harvard has retained the right to license the vaccine’s production to government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that distribute the vaccine in developing countries with per capita annual incomes of less than $1,000. According to Mekalanos, he is cooperating with Morningside to construct a new research center and conduct clinical trials in China, where the new product can be released more quickly than in Europe or the U.S. After establishing the legitimacy of the vaccine, they then hope to branch out to Europe and the U.S. Mekelanos said he plans to conduct clinical trials...