Word: crowning
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...Take literature, for example. Literature is regarded by some as the crown jewel of worthless and inapplicable subjects. But literature’s critics would do well to realize that literature is just as useful a means of gauging the social climate as any social science experiment. Only literary analysis can do what empirical analysis cannot: uncover what people are feeling and how they interact during a certain period in time. Rather than wielding literature’s formidable power of insight, however, academics are often too busy observing topics in the intellectual stratosphere. We are taught what words mean...
...Pope Air Force Base threw a party on Nov. 15 for a thousand new and expectant military moms--a baby boomlet prompted by the return since October 2007 of some 22,000 members of the 82nd Airborne from active duty in Iraq. The event was held in Fayetteville's Crown Exposition Center, complete with a buffet, a cupcake table, plenty of bottled water and raffle prizes ranging from a 2009 Chevy Malibu to a Fisher-Price Take-Along Swing for infants...
...hotel is the crown jewel of the Palm Jumeirah, a monumental feat of land reclamation. In the shape of an Arabian date palm, it is the first in a network of man-made islands that is altering Dubai's landscape, adding 1,200 miles (2,000 km) of additional beachfront property to a desert city-state whose natural coastline is a mere 37 miles (60 km). The $20 million extravaganza aims to nail down Dubai's reputation for luxurious excess - an ambition that seems almost anachronistic now that ill winds from Wall Street and the collapse in oil prices...
...let’s not forget the current underclassmen who, for those who watched this team’s run to the league crown this year, already feel like seasoned veterans. Before suffering an injury with two weeks left in the season and seeing limited minutes in last weekend’s tourney game, sophomore Katherine Sheeleigh paced the Harvard offense for the second straight year and picked up a place on the All-Ivy First Team along the way. And in August, freshman Melanie Baskind arrived on Harvard’s campus to combine with Sheeleigh for the league?...
...Quai de l'Ile, above, is unlike any watch Vacheron Constantin has ever made: it's customizable and impossible to copy. Buyers can choose from nearly 400 combinations of metals and dials. (A rose-gold crown with a titanium bezel, perhaps?) And to further thwart counterfeiters, Vacheron has enlisted Roger Pfund, the designer behind the Swiss passport and banknote, to institute high-security details like offset printing and a polymer film on the crystal dial. A custom watch takes only three months...