Word: drift
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...Lamb’s art. His distinctive hand-made lamps, constructed of light wooden frames and varying kinds of fine colored paper, hang from the ceiling, and his supplies cover every table surface. On Fridays, Lamb usually starts the evening by himself, absorbed in his own projects. People drift in over the course of an hour and half to work on their own pieces. Closing time has a tendency to determine itself; on some nights, Lamb packs up alone and on others, the group is working until...
...according to Pinker, it was this meal that started his drift towards Harvard...
...some people just don’t know when’s when. This is only exacerbated by the fact that you’re sleeping on a Twin XL mattress, and you are all too aware that there is somebody sleeping next to you as you try to drift into sweet dreamland. You’re better off trading in Harvard Square for Kenmore or Davis, or heck, just go to Wellesley. But this misses the point entirely...
...forth between its different new hosts with devastating effect. The virus survives and thrives by constantly mutating?so that just as our immune systems recognize and kill off one strain, a new one emerges against which our defenses don't work. Most are minor adaptations, the product of genetic "drift." Every now and then, however, something more dramatic occurs: a genetic "shift." Also termed "a reassortment event," this is the creation of a wholly new strain with genetic elements taken from viruses found in different species...
...persistent voice in promoting the rights of assembly and expression antagonized the government; anti-state charges forced him into exile overseas in 1976 and again in 1991. During that time, he continued to write so that his views could drift back home, he says...