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...SciTech Oscars resembles its glitzier counterpart held later this month at the Kodak Theater. No one asked the guy who designed the mysterious-sounding Brugmatic MPST Densitometer who he is wearing. No one speculated if the woman who helped the film industry convert from silver-based to cyan dye analog soundtracks is finally over her ex. No one thanked his agent - although the computer science department at MIT did get name-checked...
...from the airport was surprised to learn that I was American, as were vendors in the fruit market, although everyone under 30, it seemed, spoke English. Road signs in the capital are in Cyrillic, and Old World and communist-era charms abound--men in chapeaux, women with bright red dye jobs--but there are also plenty of skinny young things running around in tight jeans and tall boots, heading to hot nightclubs like Chervilo and Briliantin that don't get going before midnight...
SCOTLAND YARD HAS HAD ONE BIG BREAK IN the case: polonium, once released, is like a persistent, invisible dye that marks whatever it touches. Someone who ingests even small amounts will leave an unmistakable trail through sweat and even fingerprints. London's gumshoes have spent the past two weeks following such spores all over town--and beyond...
...MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGHAt this year’s Citizen Schools Gala in May, 8GA alumnus Hugo D. Desius said he aspired to be a doctor and that the program was key in developing his ambitions.“In Haiti they say ‘Dye mon, gen mon’—beyond the mountain is another mountain. That means that in life there is one challenge after another,” Desius says. “Citizen Schools has helped me climb one mountain. It also prepares me and thousands of others to climb the mountains ahead...
...Yellow's sorrows reflect the situation of China's other waterways. Rivers in other parts of the country have run black and occasionally turned other unnatural colors from an overloading with effluents from paper mills and dye factories. According to recent government figures some 320 million Chinese still lack access to clean drinking water. Lead and arsenic have been among the contaminants reported in recent pollution scandals...