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...government concentration switched to House-based advising after working with a hybrid of House advising and centralized advising based in CGIS for a number of years...
Over the course of the past decade, green culture and investments in green technology have skyrocketed in the U.S. From 2004 to 2005, sales of the hybrid Toyota Prius nearly doubled, as they did again from 2006 to 2007. Green construction, unknown just 10 years earlier, had by 2007 blossomed into a $12 billion industry. Shoppers everywhere have started toting around little reusable sacks as an eco-friendly alternative to the disposable paper and plastic bags of yore...
...literary interpretation or decoding, but simply asks to be absorbed, as a child might listen to a fairy tale. The opening poem of the volume, “Two Trees,” tells a story of Don Miguel who grafts an orange tree to a lemon tree. The hybrid orange-lemon tree mysteriously brings forth “two lights in the dark leaves” before it is axed in half by the subsequent owner of the garden. Paterson implies at the end of the poem, that there is no hidden message in this tale...
...rules, competition, intense training, self-control, and teamwork—like many other sports—while also allowing for self-expression on a more sophisticated level than pure competitive drive. The Crimson Dance Team and Harvard Ballroom Dance Team fuse athletic competition with artistic interpretation, in a unique hybrid of art and sport...
Dance teams are judged on various, partly subjective, criteria: technique, difficulty, passion, creativity, style, ability to communicate emotion, clarity, control, synchronization, and musicality—all of which highlight the hybrid aspects of the art. In ballroom, there are four principal aspects: musicality, beauty and technique, partnering, and speed and power. Musicality—or a dancer’s capacity to interpret the music through motions that fit the mood and rhythm—shifts these competitive dances from a sport to an art form. A competitive dancer should not just be robotically performing moves; there needs...