Word: elements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard students add a youthful element to teaching," says Linda A. Ferullo, a second-grade teacher at the Tobin School...
...they would be drinking pure artesian H2O. They were mistaken. Since 1983, more than 100,000 cases of arsenic poisoning have been reported; the consequences range from skin discoloration to cancer--and death. The source of the poison? Apparently chemical changes in the bedrock caused arsenic, a naturally occurring element, to dissolve into the groundwater. The central government recently stepped in with $31 million for research and new, deeper wells. Last week Dipankar Chakraborty, an environmental scientist at Jadavpur University, held a seminar to publicize the mass contamination. Said a worried suburbanite: ``What we really need is not seminars...
Coming of age is probably the biggest element in his success, in fact. His coach, former Italian champ Gustavo Thoeni, swears that his restless charge has settled down: ``I'm not saying he goes to bed at 10 p.m., but usually by midnight, yes.'' Many followers also believe that his engagement to Martina Colombari, a 20-year-old former Miss Italy, has cooled Tomba's boogie-all- night habits at resort discos. True? Says Tomba: ``They seem to forget that I've been with her for three years.'' Still, he acknowledges being ``just a little more serious...
...this morass of motive, the common element is place. All characters in the novel, innocent or guilty, are tied to Innocent House. As always, James' descriptions are elaborate, elegant, and evocative--they hypnotize the unsuspecting reader. Several of her earlier novels are set in hospitals or clinics, close bound communities associated with death or abnormality. Innocent House provides a less obviously macabre setting. This gilded faux Venetian palace on the banks of the Thames is as unexpected as a Jamesian corpse and as grotesquely gaudy...
Murray's advent suggests that some whites may have come to reject the Melting Pot as well. Like the Left, Murray's message is essentially that race means more than private identity, that it has a strong political element as well. While integration may be desirable, he argues, it might never be possible...