Word: designators
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...roster, each year the Academy enlists a hot young actress to host the SciTech awards. In the past Scarlett Johansson and Rachel McAdams have done the honors. This year Gyllenhaal took on the challenge of describing work like that of winner Florian Kainz, for the design of OpenEXR, a system, the Sherrybaby star said, "engineered to meet the requirements of the visual effects industry by providing for lossless and lossy compression of tiered and tiled images." There's a reason the Academy recruits smart actresses for this event - you wouldn't entrust Jessica Simpson with words like "lossy...
...attention to issues of gender and race. “She is clearly one of the most distinguished historians in the country,” Hahn says. Her 1982 biography of a South Carolina plantation owner and senator, “James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery,” won the Southern Historical Association’s prize for the year’s best book. And “Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War,” her study of 500 white women?...
...reminder of a great past when they had carved out empires under Elizabeth I and Victoria, and dared to hope that she might be an omen of a great future ... 'It may well be,' wrote a thoughtful London editorialist, 'that we here in Britain, by accident rather than design, have stumbled back to the original, the true and abiding function of monarchy, which lay in the magical power of kings ... to represent, express and effect the aspirations of the collective subconscious.'" Read more at timearchive.com...
...TIME, where practicing Christian and prominent geneticist Francis Collins faced off against Richard Dawkins, author of the best-selling “The God Delusion.” A host of competing theories have sprung up between the extremes of creationism and evolution, among them Theistic Evolution and Intelligent Design, but in the 150 years since Wilberforce met Huxley, the controversy has come no closer to even the most uneasy of resolutions. All of this makes the reemergence of aging entomologist Edward O. Wilson a welcome development. Because for Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus in Entomology and author...
...make changes in lifestyle,” according to Beth Adler, youth programs manager for Project HEALTH. This past fall, 81 Harvard undergraduates served as volunteer mentors for Project HEALTH. One student, Obinna O. Orji ’08, is now the project coordinator for STRENGTH and helped to design its curriculum by collecting surveys from patients and their families at the BMC’s Endocrinology Clinic on the health issues about which they would like to learn. Recent medical research shows that the obesity epidemic both worldwide and in the United States now affects not only the adult...