Word: extract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when I thought I had the word right, I put on a bright smile and, leaning against the stone balustrade, I asked in an offhand way, "Bolshoye?" This is the word for big, and was a question in reference to the size of the fish he hoped to extract from the river. He turned very slowly and looked at me from under a crumpled hat as if I were daft. I backed up behind him and riffled the pages of the dictionary for small, just to keep things going, but he had turned back to his line, staring down...
...asphalt-black world of suburbia. They romp cheerily among the trees and mopeds, chattering about Betamaxes and analysts. Often it's so hard to distinguish one from another amid the swirl of LaCoste and Adidas, that concerned parents just scoop up a convenient horde at sunset, hoping to extract their own offspring by dinner time...
...richness of such variety. Taken as a whole, the pictures turn out to be less about cars than about photography, its prodigality as a medium, its capacity to abstract and transform the materials of reality. The show's real subject is the camera's ability to extract from the banality and clutter of common experience a meaning and order unavailable to the casual eye. What come through most sharply in the photographs is an immediacy and potency of detail, an aura of enchanted concreteness radiating from the most ordinary places and things--the raw blue color of gravel, a shallow...
...gold mine, indeed. Most of the available IF is now obtained from the Finnish Red Cross and the Central Public Health Laboratory in Helsinki, which extract it from white blood cells separated from donated blood. The output in 1979 was minuscule, 400 mg (.014 oz.) gleaned from 45,000 liters (90,000 pints) of blood. The effort is so painstaking that, according to estimates by scientists at the California Institute of Technology, a pound of pure interferon would cost between $10 billion and $20 billion. That price will certainly decline as large companies enter the field with more efficient production...
...enrichment plant that is designed to diminish European reliance on the U.S. for enriched reactor fuel. To increase the amount of energy they can get from a given amount of uranium, the French also operate one of the world's largest plants for reprocessing spent fuel rods to extract unused uranium 235 and plutonium. But retreating nuclear fuel this way also produces highly radioactive liquid wastes that must be stored indefinitely. The French now refrigerate the waste and store it in double stainless-steel tanks, sheathed in reinforced concrete then hermetically sealed in a reinforced concrete vault, and buried...