Word: hybridize
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Placed squarely between Widener Library and Boylston Hall is a gray sculpture that looks like some kind of turtle-lion hybrid. It's Ch'ing Dynasty original, carved before 1821, and donated in 1936 by the Harvard Club of Shanghai...
There is nothing new about such conceits, of course. "Snobbery and gardening have gone hand in hand for hundreds of years," argues Pollan. There have always been those who plant old roses with good bloodlines, he explains, and those who go for high-tech hybrid teas with names like Chrysler Imperial-"a rose named after a car, for God's sake." What's different today, he observes, is that gardening has become such a fad. "You can pour vast sums of money into an acre of land and acquire the patina of sophisticated gardening very quickly." Horticultural social climbers speedily...
...supplied by Harvard, which boasts several books on marijuana-growing in its libraries). Tom's remaining 15 plants--he originally began with 50--were raised from four different types of seeds that he took from pot he bought: two types of sativa, one indica from West Virginia and one hybrid...
...days later, Jean Colonna, the brash boy of grunge Parisian avant-grade, presented his fall collection of women's and men's clothing at the Institute of Contemporary Art. The event was a fundraiser for the Institute, the ideal location to the introduce Colonna's hybrid clothing. Both the women's and men's wear combined tight-fitting polyesters, black and silver leathers and a transparent, paper-like material. The models came swaggering down the runways in provocative, fluid movements, some dancing exotically to the grinding heavy metal. The whole event was very "in your face" with the women wearing...
There are technical issues aplenty, such as whether the computer or the television -- or some hybrid -- will be the main electronic link to the home of the 21st century. But the more tantalizing question is just how the information titans will make their money. Spurred by forecasts that the worldwide market for everything from movies on demand to electronic shopping malls could reach $1 trillion within a decade, top corporate strategists are still debating whether they will profit most by distributing digital data, by owning it or by some combination...