Word: filtering
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...found your cover story on birth order fascinating [Oct. 29]. For years, I have attempted to interpret myriad human actions through the filter of birth order. Although I understand a theory is far from a catchall answer to psychological mysteries, I believe this one explains a large part of our behavior. Thank you for publishing the latest research...
...couldn't look inland, you couldn't look at the shore because you'd see mounds of ash. You'd be inhaling ash." But that didn't stop the surfer. He still wanted to catch those perfect waves. And, on Monday, with a bandanna tied around his face to filter...
...Assembly in New York, he plots out a media campaign that - in its shrewdness, relentlessness, and quest for attention - would rival Angelina Jolie on a movie junket. And like any international figure, Mr. Ahmadinejad hones his performance for multiple audiences: in this case, the journalists and academics who can filter his speech and ideas for a wider American audience...
Flat strips of lush, submerged grass rise in terraces from the courtyard of Sidwell Friends' new middle school in Washington like rice paddies in a mountainous Chinese village. Part of a man-made wetland connected to the school's water system, the plants filter liquid waste, just as real wetlands do with rainwater. It's an engineering marvel, but Sidwell student Patricia Solleveld, 15, doesn't want you to get the wrong idea. "It doesn't smell at all," she says. Not only that, says Alejandro Alderman, 14, but the wastewater filtered through the wetland is clean enough to drink...
...council members to look at our history so that when they are proposing ideas, they can gain wisdom from the past,†Ragalie said. His interface uses search technology that allows readers to find keywords anywhere in the body of a document and includes an option to filter queries by the type of document desired or the session of council from which it dates. Ragalie, who said that UC documents from 1992 onward would continue to be scanned into the online archive database during the semester, recalled that the work of compiling the new application was not just...