Word: gems
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...Clearly that has changed, and young companies like GEM are taking advantage. GEM, which stands for Global Electric Motorcars, is a Fargo, North Dakota, subsidiary of Chrysler that's been selling small electric vehicles for a decade - or as GEM President Rick Kapser has said, "back when gas was a $1.25 a gallon." GEMs may look a bit like golf carts - and they may occasionally be used as golf carts as well - but they are real, street-legal vehicles, drivable on any road with a speed limit of 35 mph or less. Their success provides a good window into...
...comes with a delightfully punny or inspirational aphorism. After each meal in the dining hall, I would pick out a teabag and ponder the message on its label. The tea itself isn’t particularly good, but taste is a small price to pay for spiritual clarity.Take this gem, for example: “I’ve never looked through a keyhole without seeing someone looking back.” I interpret the message here to be about the importance of privacy. In my second year studying Japanese at Harvard, we learned that there is technically no word...
...show off the cast’s vocal skills. While a few of the notes in the lower range are unintelligible, most of the songs remained engaging despite the sometimes corny lyrics. Highlights include songs from Giuliani and Bess P. Rosen ’11, who has a surprising gem of a solo halfway through the play as the overly motherly Teresa Vandershmidt. Amidst all this, “Castaways” also manages to sneak in a bit of satire on American culture, lampooning our blind belief in politics as well as our preoccupation with material goods. When...
...obviously appealing to the optimism and inexperience of a young audience occurs. This is a fairly low-keyed comedy, but a grown-up dropping in on it can appreciate its lack of frenzy, its fundamental good nature, as easily as its core audience will. It isn?t exactly a gem, but as zircons go, it?...
...Silk road gem and jade shop," the sign proudly states. Centrally located just down the street from the main mosque in Khotan, a dusty oasis town located in the vast Taklamakan Desert in China's far southwest, the shop is a focal point for the Muslim Uighurs who make up the majority of the local population. But though it is mid-morning, its gates are secured with heavy steel padlocks. Warning notices from the Public Security Bureau are pasted across the doors announcing that the business has been closed indefinitely. Until last month, this was one of the biggest private...