Word: gamut
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...consumption habits. Humans, says Arthus- Bertrand, have made their mark everywhere on the planet, particularly in the past 50 years. Through population growth and technological progress, they have dramatically transformed the earth's myriad landscapes. Arthus-Bertrand's themes in his photographic "state of the planet" cover the gamut of environmental and human- rights concerns: climate change, health care, food production, pollution, endangered species, water use, poverty, literacy, insecticides, garbage mountains, energy sources, women's rights, population issues, wildlife poaching, desertification and deforestation, and more. A photo of a Finnish greenhouse in winter, eerily illuminated by artificial lighting, emphasizes...
This year’s winning papers ran the gamut of scholarly research—from literary criticism on C.S. Lewis, to studies of obscure diseases to a sociological thesis on “the legitamacy of commercial...
...Diaries Nanny comes across alphabetized lingerie drawers, a Christmas tree with no room for a child-made ornament and the "Spatula Reflex," a gesture developed by mommies to keep their children's hugs away. The master bedroom in apartments as vast as the Xs', Nan notes, "always runs the gamut from far away to really, really far away" from the child's bedroom, which contains "signed first edition Babar prints hung at least three feet above the child's head...
...expatriate's relationship with the host country is a shifting one, and during my eight years in Western Japan, I have run the whole gamut: Greenhorn-in-Wonderland, hyper critic, "Excuse-me-but-you're-standing-in-my-Japan," culture-intoxicatee. I am returning to the U.K. at the end of March, but, paradoxically, my tie with Japan is due to grow much stronger in mid-May when my wife gives birth and I become the father of an infant Japanese-Briton...
...weekend’s panels ran the gamut from discussions of nonviolence and activism to the legacy of Malcolm X to pluralism and American media...