Word: mads
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...Mad Diary...
...Allard, this response is characteristic of Whitton’s personality. “We’re talking about someone who is in the upper echelon of talent, but to not know how to run the bases is typical of Tiffany. Her response is not to get mad at herself, but to laugh at herself,” Allard says. “It was so ridiculous that everyone learned a lesson...
...home. When Kuo entered Harvard, she “wanted to end homelessness in the USA.” Now, she says, “If I can provide a safe space for 24 people in Cambridge, I’ll feel good about it...I used to get mad that people weren’t engaged in social issues. Now I’m more understanding. Everyone wants to save the world in their...
...Where and how we draw our colors is the subject of Victoria Finlay's book, Colour: Travels through the Paintbox. A British author and adventurer, Finlay embarks on a quest for the origins of colors?her favorites, anyway. Finlay is part scholar, part mad scientist and always a sprightly and engaging storyteller. This search takes her, inevitably, to Sar-e-Sang mine in northern Afghanistan, the main source of lapis. "The first 20 meters would have given the stones for the Egyptian tombs," she writes. "A little later was where the Bamiyan Buddhas got their haloes." Deeper down was "where...
...Today, faced with having to spend billions more to upgrade their networks to handle heavy data traffic?and lacking evidence that consumers are willing to pay extra for whizzy videophones?those same companies are in a mad scramble to retrench as fast as they advanced. Saddled with debt, frightened by sinking stock prices and wary of technological delays, most carriers have postponed their 3G-investment plans and instead are settling for less costly upgrades of existing networks through technology known...