Word: mica
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...course, is that it's child. Divestiture from Hain or the USSR just hasn't caught on vel, but you can be a hit at any Cambridge cocktail party by dropping a few pithy lines about your recent exploits in arriving to force Bok and Harvard to quit South Mica...
...vast extent, some of the structure is mistaken or awkward, and the characterization can be shallow. This said, it should be added that pieces of A.T.C. are so startlingly good, so funny and true to life and viscerally engaging, that it is a joy: there are brilliant flecks of mica in the granatic escarp...
...sober climb, until it had another fit of steps." The eerie, lonely beauty of perpetual dusk is condensed in an impression: "Northward above the mountain shoulder she saw one bright star shine clear, gone the next instant, lost, like the reflection in a raindrop or the glitter of mica in sand...
...make incisions and treat them. It did not mention that these sorts of '"miracles" have been rationally explained. Dr. William Nolen, a Minnesota surgeon, underwent a similar operation himself while researching his 1975 book Healing and reported that the "psychic" incisions were actually made with bits of mica concealed under a fingernail. The excised "tumor" appeared to Nolen to be chicken tissue and had been concealed in the surgeon's fist...
...exhibit, which has been praised by London's art critics, is loosely organized by geography, with scholarly gloss held to a welcome minimum. Prehistoric stone carvings from the southeastern forests immortalize a puma or a hawk in onyx and a snake in a slithering s of shiny mica. The ochers and sharp abstractions of the Southwest desert dominate the region's basketwork and pottery...