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...School - that included artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and Arshile Gorky. In the 1940s and '50s, they all lived not far from one another in a combustible concentration on Manhattan's West Side, in Greenwich Village or just south of there. From their continual friction and cross-pollination, a powerful movement was born...
Flirting is also emotional capital to be expended in return for something else. Not usually for money, but for the intangibles--a better table, a juicier cut of meat, the ability to return an unwanted purchase without too many questions. It's a handy social lubricant, reducing the friction of everyday transactions, and closer to a strategically timed tip than a romantic overture. Have you ever met a male hairdresser who wasn't a flirt? Women go to him to look better. So the better they feel when they walk out of his salon, the happier they...
...Divinity School, which helps run an orphanage and school in rural Kenya. The aid effort is complicated by the sensitivity of the political situation, which sometimes spills over into the Kenyan community at Harvard, Bowman said. “When the violence in Kenya began, we started to have friction in the group, but we were able to draw on our connections and overcome that,” Bowman said. “We will not argue about the elections. We will help everyone.” —Staff writer Cora K. Currier can be reached at ccurrier@fas.harvard.edu...
...spent most of the day answering questions about relationships: his and Diana's, Diana's and Prince Philip's, Diana's with Dodi's versus that with her ex-boyfriend, heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan. But it was near the end of the day that focus turned to the friction between Diana and her mother, Frances Shand Kydd...
...McKinsey analysis calls “breakthrough innovations”—the sort that could reduce greenhouse gas output far beyond today’s optimistic projections. One such technology is the magnetic levitation wind turbine, a colossal rotating structure that uses magnetic levitation to minimize friction and reduce inefficiency—the same principle that allows maglev trains to travel at very high speeds. The technology was debuted in a 2006 energy conference in Beijing, but is now being pushed in America as an alternative to expansive wind farms. The companies building magnetic levitation wind turbines claim...