Word: crystallized
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...What do you think of political comedians like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert? -Crystal Bruneau, Los Angeles...
...Since then, it has gone pretty much downhill. Today Xianyang is one of the most polluted cities in a very polluted country, partly as a result of the air-fouling coal that's burned to generate much of its power. The air in Reykjavík, by contrast, is crystal clear, because nothing is burned there. Iceland's capital gets 100% of its heat and 40% of its electricity from geothermal power. (The rest comes from hydropower.) The same forces that have scattered no fewer than 130 volcanoes across the tiny country bring molten rock relatively close to the surface everywhere...
...think we would be so lucky if we can get another dean like her,†Crystal M. Fleming, president of the GSAS Graduate School Council, said. Fleming, a doctorate candidate in sociology, said Skocpol was both “very accessible†and “very sensitive.†Dean Skocpol’s legacy, Fleming said, will be her efforts to improve teaching and pedagogy...
...From that point forward, architecture in which the elements of a building are disassembled and exuberantly recombined was a Rogers trademark. In that, he was an original, but also a great synthesizer. He drew inspiration from the engineering-as-architecture of London's 19th-century Crystal Palace, a place as stripped down and functional as a suspension bridge, but also from the Expressionism of Erich Mendelsohn, the German architect who brought a sensual component to Modernism. What Rogers arrived at was a way to make high tech not just lucid but surprising. Modernism expelled applied ornament. But by making...
...Government Jennifer L. Hochschild, and Associate Professor of Medicine Raghu Kalluri of the Harvard Medical School each received an award, which honors “those Harvard faculty members who truly go out of their way to mentor GSAS students,†said Graduate School Council (GSC) President Crystal M. Fleming. Hochschild said yesterday afternoon after receiving the award that she valued her relationship with her advisees. “Working with these students is just extraordinarily fun,†Hochschild said. “My job is to make them do their job better...