Word: garden
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Muller was inspired to the discovery while walking in a monastery garden during a 1983 conference in Erice, Sicily. Although most existing superconductors were metals, theorists had suggested that ceramics, which usually act as insulators at room temperature, might also work because of their molecular structure. Stirred by a lecture on the subject, Muller started thinking about specific kinds of ceramics that might do the job. Says Bednorz: "As outsiders in the superconductor area, we could afford to tackle unconventional ideas." Was the award a surprise? "Based on the interest our work aroused, one could have expected it," says Muller...
Aubelin Jolicoeur lives here in a stucco house that looks out over a garden. As the sun sets behind his terrace, the bougainvillea, like a tropical cliche, begins to cast its mysterious evening shadows. "The government absolutely believes in elections," says Jolicoeur, whom Greene immortalized in The Comedians in the character of the vicious -- but charming -- Petit Pierre. He sips at his champagne. "Why, Bill called me in just this morning," he says, referring to General Regala. "All he could talk about was elections, elections, elections. For three hours. He asked me to begin a series of profiles...
...begun to have a crisis of confidence in the Garden State. One day last August, I took a road trip down to Sandy Hook with a couple friends. Frankly, I was shocked...
...laureates (Sinclair Lewis, Pearl Buck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill and John Steinbeck). The gumshoe lit crit was sometimes comically inept. FBI files, for example, described the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay as possibly subversive because she used the "analogy of the mole boring under the garden...
...explanation for the extreme views and exaggerated statistics in Hite's report may rest with her methodology. The author went about gathering her data by mailing 100,000 questionnaires to a variety of women's groups in 43 states, ranging from feminist organizations to church groups to garden clubs. Her questionnaire listed 127 essay questions on subjects ranging from dating to hobbies to parents, many of them rather abstract. (Admits Hite: "You can quantify orgasms, but you can't quantify love.") After receiving the first 1,500 responses, Hite says, she made a demographic comparison between her respondents...