Word: digester
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...bridge shook below my feet.It’s a sight to make any Modernist’s skin tingle, because the scene gives great artistic meaning to the states of motion and transportation so common to Beijing.Beijing’s vastness makes it a difficult city to digest aesthetically, because its design and architecture cover such an unusually broad spectrum—from the totally utilitarian and modern to the fanciful and archaic. In exploring the points of contrast between these extremes, there is a way to make sense of Beijing’s sprawl. In understanding more...
...Only the surgeons actually performing joint replacements can make intelligent decisions as to which procedure is best. We study the engineering, the metallurgy, the tribology (friction science) - and the body's responses to these things from the gross anatomic level down to the subcellular, ultramicroscopic scale. We digest hundreds of studies about the clinical science and spend hundreds of hours in conferences hashing over the pros and cons. Then we do the operations and we live with the results for the rest of our lives; they are the swords by which we live or die. So, should a two-minute...
...Additionally, Boston City Councillor At-Large Felix Arroyo appealed to the BRA to give the community more time to digest Harvard’s plans, noting that the 90-day comment period has been “too short to resolve many of the complex issues raised by the Report and the project itself...
Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, marked the halfway point of the 25th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Screenings continued through midday, then were canceled to allow the public and the critics, many of them from the U.S., to mourn the deaths and digest the meaning of that day. In every year since, TIFF has commemorated 9/11 with politically pointed films - on the Iraq occupation, the Bush Administration, America's stooped standing in the world - beginning in 2002 with 11'09"01, in which 11 directors each made a film of 11 min. 9 sec. provoked by the events of the year...
...Just last spring, Senator Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young, both Alaska Republicans, were linked to an ongoing bribery and money laundering investigation. And Senator David Vitter of Louisiana admitted to inappropriate conduct with the D.C. Madam. Now, the G.O.P. must digest the Craig scandal...