Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...against Powers, 18, who is an F.I.S. halfpipe prodigy and has already done much to pump up the competitiveness of the F.I.S. circuit. The outgoing Richards, though he had some difficulty in the first Grand Prix event, came on to win the second stop at Mount Bachelor with a fluid technical style rooted in his first passion, skateboarding. Powers, one of the more disciplined and reserved riders on the tour, has exploded into the top rankings this winter with several convincing wins. Even without Haakonsen, the U.S. will have its hands full holding off another Norwegian in the halfpipe, Daniel...
Both the music and the words on Little Plastic Castle seem unfettered and fluid. There's a jokey, poetry-slam freedom to DiFranco's lyrics here that is reminiscent of some of Bob Dylan's freewheelin', socially conscious early work. In one song, Fuel, DiFranco starts off with a pointed political observation--"They were digging a new foundation in Manhattan/ and they discovered a slave cemetery there/ may their souls rest easy now that lynching is frowned upon/ and we've moved on to the electric chair"--and then shifts easily to an image of digging deeper to uncover cultural...
...HEAD START Using a few drops of spinal fluid, a new test can detect Alzheimer's disease years before full-blown symptoms arise. The test, which is as accurate as a brain autopsy, measures NTP, a protein that's released from damaged brain cells...
Xiangsan Liang, a first-year graduate student in fluid dynamics from the city of Hangzhou near Shanghai, says that he was attracted to Harvard by the high caliber of the University's faculty...
...adviser is the founding father of physical fluid dynamics," Liang says. "I just wanted to study with the best adviser in the best university in the world...