Word: filtering
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Mixing glass with cement may seem strange, but that is what Aron Losonczi, a Hungarian architect, has done to create a transparent concrete called LiTraCon. Glass in the form of fiber optics allows light to filter through the material, creating a surreal effect. Available in sheets 2 in. or more wide, LiTraCon is as strong as regular concrete and can be used for walls, flooring or sculpture. It is on display at the National Building Museum in Washington through...
...Pintupi have one of the highest rates of kidney failure in the country. "Our rates of dialysis are 40 times the national average," says Dr. Paul Rivalland, who started as a general practitioner in Kintore 20 years ago. End-stage renal disease depletes the body's ability to filter impurities in the blood and fight off infections. But while it has struck people as young as 19, it has ravaged the ranks of Pintupi elders, keepers of traditional law and culture. "They do so much to hold the community together," says Paul Sweeney, manager of Papunya Tula Artists. Many...
...Foster says these barriers are intended to filter out students not suited for special concentrations...
Payne, who graduated from Stanford, was simultaneously accepted by Columbia's journalism school and UCLA'S film program and only narrowly chose filmmaking over being a foreign correspondent. "They both use the self as a filter to show what is going on in the world," he says. He scored a writing-directing deal from Universal shortly after graduating in 1990, and promptly spent five grand of his paycheck on late-'80s Bordeaux. "I was overeager, like most tyros are," he says...
...current labor disagreement makes achieving that end doubly difficult. Not only is the hope of being called up after a particularly solid performance removed, but the youngest players from the NHL will filter back down into the AHL, taking spots that would normally go to the recent grads and signees...