Word: ernest
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...hope Ernest Hemingway, wherever he is, has a nice stiff drink - he's going to need one when he hears this news: The celebrated snows that drape the heights of Mount Kilimanjaro are melting at an alarming pace. According to researcher Lonnie Thompson, global warming is gradually erasing the blinding white cover, leaving instead a dull patina of rock. "The ice will be gone by 2015 or so," Thompson told the Associated Press...
Other panel members included International Foundation for Election Systems President Richard Soudriette, Youth-e-Vote.net Director of Public Affairs and Government Relations Donald Tighe and Sacramento, California Registrar of Votes Ernest Hawkins...
...researchers hope to change the subject of the college conversation from status to quality. So far, they seem to be succeeding. "They're getting closer to the actual kinds of things that go on in a person's undergraduate life, and that's important," says University of Iowa professor Ernest Pascarella. And institutions are eager to take part in the discussion. More schools applied than could be accommodated for both the first round of the survey and the second, which will occur this February...
Charles Warren Professor of History Ernest R. May said yesterday that when Defense Secretary William S. Cohen concludes the investigation of the event, May will make his findings official...
...writing "fat and thin" characters, some bold and emphatic and others trailing to the faintest visual whisper, was peculiarly his own (at least among Japanese calligraphers) and difficult to emulate. His ability to work with space through writing struck his admirers as a marvel. Ernest Fenollosa, the great Boston connoisseur of Japanese art who did the most to introduce Koetsu to a Western audience at the end of the 19th century, went into raptures about it: "Such a unique feeling for spacing, placing and spotting has never elsewhere been exhibited in the world's art. Koetsu...