Word: glassing
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...forts cannot be exported. The Rev. Hakluyt had imagined that the colonies "would yield unto us all the commodities of Europe, Africa and Asia." Perhaps the settlers would discover gold. All they found were a few semiprecious stones--garnets, amethysts, quartz crystals. Perhaps they could manufacture glass. One resupply ship brought eight German and Polish craftsmen. Most of them ran off to live with the Indians...
...affordability. Meals of mixed starters, entrée and dessert can be comfortably had for under $30. Afterwards, guests can head to the champagne bar and enjoy the one Moroccan delicacy about which there is no debate in smoking-mad Indonesia: 12 flavors of imported tobacco, drawn through handblown glass shisha pipes. For reservations call...
That Harvard diploma may not be quite enough to break the glass ceiling, according to findings released this week by the American Association of University Women (AAUW...
Just before 3 a.m. on Saturday a hand grenade went off outside the bedroom window of my Belgrade apartment, filling the room with smoke and shards of glass, leaving shrapnel holes on the ceiling and walls. Despite the damage, we were lucky: when the police arrived, they found a second grenade, unexploded, on the sidewalk nearby. I had been in danger many times before while covering the bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia for TIME and for the local newsmagazine Vreme. But this was different: the wars ended years ago, Serbia's former President Slobodan Milosevic is dead and buried...
Oren himself seems slightly torn as to whether or not his glass is half full in regards to American policy. Although his book shows that American policies and principles have been “cataclysmic,” he concludes that by “consistently upholding its principles, the United States might yet transform its vision of peaceful, fruitful relations with the Middle East from fantasy into reality.” Oren, however, gives no evidence to show that this transformation is any more realistic than Disney’s “Aladdin...