Word: enriching
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...much as these stories enrich one another, they also add weight, and occasionally the accumulation becomes more than the novel can bear. Horn writes in slyly beautiful prose—a forest at sunset can suddenly become “a drawstring bag…tightening the early evening sky with wrinkles of naked branches”—but the movements between storylines often feel heavy and imposed. But when Ben comes home from the museum and looks at the Chagall painting (a study of a man floating over a city), we read that Ben himself feels...
...hell is happening in Berlin? Us plebians have no idea, and boy are we worried! Thomas Koebner from Universitat Mainz, knows, however, and he’s telling all in his lecture “The Contemporary German Film Scene: What’s Going On?” Enrich your absicht, brag about it to your...
...based my application essay to the Center for Hellenic Studies on the advice of my stoner Classics buddies. Whether by intervention of the gods or professors with clout, I ended up on a plane to Athens. College students often use study abroad as a way to improve language skills, enrich term-time academic pursuits, or reconnect with their cultural heritage. I knew only enough conversational Greek to say “No, stop, I don’t want to do that,” I study American History and Literature, and I’m less Greek than...
...Moreover, in negotiating with the Europeans, Iran has expressed a willingness to create additional mechanisms to satisfy the international community's concerns - while maintaining its right, in principle, to enrich uranium. And that's an issue on which it gets considerable support from the developing world. In short, much of the world remains to be convinced that Iran actually harbors the "nuclear weapons ambitions" alleged by President Bush. And the fact that these allegations are coming from the same man who started a war on the basis of a series of claims against Iraq that later were proved false does...
...military circles, there is a debate about where--and when--to draw that line. U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte told TIME in April that Iran is five years away from having a nuclear weapon. But some nonproliferation experts worry about a different moment: when Iran is able to enrich enough uranium to fuel a bomb--a point that comes well before engineers actually assemble a nuclear device. Many believe that is when a country becomes a nuclear power. That red line, experts say, could be just a year away...