Word: graying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Sources: Annie Murphy Paul; Paul Sackett; Challenger, Gray & Christmas...
...wine. "Wine is an acid. Bicarb soda is an alkali. So when you spill red wine on the carpet, you mop up as much as you can, then sprinkle on bicarb soda. The alkali negates the acid. You'll see straight away the stain change from red to pale gray as the pH swaps over and the pigment starts to break down and the wine loses its staining ability." Lush hopes the book will help others see cleaning crises the way she does: as puzzles. "It's basic chemistry," she says. "The building blocks of everything around you are pretty...
...option.During the first round of the transfer process this year, there were 166 applications for transfer and 121 were approved, according to Nelson. There is also a second opportunity at the end of the spring term to transfer to another House.—Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff writer Nina L. Vizcarrondo can be reached at nvizcarr@fas.harvard.edu...
...shake off its past, however halting they may be, offer some hope. One day Mladic and Karadzic will likely be caught. One day, Serbia's ambitions to join the E.U. will be met. But you did not have to stand last Saturday in a light rain, under a steel-gray sky, and watch a man who had brought so much misery to so many laid to rest while a reverent crowd mourned his passing, to know that in the Balkans, that will take time...
Sources: Violence Policy Center (2); U.S. Treasury; AP (2); State Dept.; CBS Sportsline; Challenger, Gray & Christmas