Word: glassing
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...same way they do with everything Harvard-related. Did anyone bat an eye when BU launched its own sex-themed publication in late 2004? No—because it wasn’t Harvard. It’s a reality that comes with being under a magnifying glass many times bigger than our next closest rival. And it’s a reality that extends far beyond the scope of a failed sex magazine...
...materials from the point of view not of a biologist but of a physical scientist and engineer.”In addition to the brittle star, Aizenberg cites the example of the Venus’ flower basket, a deep-sea sponge that not only builds a “glass house” with mechanical properties superior to any man-made glass, but surrounds the house with a cloud of optical fibers, using techniques similar to those behind recent innovations in optical technology.Federico Capasso, the Wallace professor of applied physics, says that Aizenberg’s work will fit well...
...made an enemy or two along the way. As the military man who understood the terrain and was the least likely to be missed if he didn't return, Smith was put in charge of seeking local tribes willing to swap corn, fish and game for English copper and glass beads. When one hard-pressed tribe balked at the corn-for-copper trade, Smith ordered his men to rake the village with shot and put the odd lodge to the torch. Terrified natives opened their granary to the armed trespassers, knowing that meant some of their own people would likely...
...night's beer supply. Heidi, a recent college graduate from Florida, wonders whether the war will eventually collapse on the Green Zone, the way it did on the U.S. embassy in Saigon. But she doesn't let that occupy her for long. Looking down at the empty glass in her hand, she smiles and says, "Let's do a shot...
...colonists were ill-prepared for life in Virginia and, at least initially, had no crops to harvest. So Kelso was not surprised to dig up the goods they offered the Indians in exchange for food. Among them: Venetian glass beads (blue ones were preferred), sheet copper (a commodity prized by the Powhatan, who wore pendants and other ornaments fashioned from the reddish metal), European coins (useless in Virginia) and metal tools (the Indians had ones made only from stone, wood, bone and shell). By the 1660s, when the English had established a number of settlements in the area, the Indians...