Word: mosaic
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...KNOW THE HALF OF IT This picture of Mercury is a mosaic of 500 frames taken by Mariner 10, which saw only half the planet up close during its three flybys. The Hubble Space Telescope has not dared to snap some pictures of its own (training its gaze so close to the sun could fry its electronics) MESSENGER will need just 12 hours to complete an orbit of Mercury. With the planet spinning slowly below, it should be able to survey the entire surface within six months...
...mined countries in the world, it is not a place in which to wander alone, especially at night. If you are traveling there, Girardet and Walter and their contributors are the people to guide you. And if you're not, an armchair journey yields an intriguing look at a mosaic of cultures and a harsh history that is still being shaped today...
...mined countries in the world, it is not a place in which to wander alone, especially at night. If you are traveling there, Girardet and Walter and their contributors are the people to guide you. And if you're not, an armchair journey yields an intriguing look at a mosaic of cultures and a harsh history that is still being shaped today...
Because Light emphasized the importance of diversity in first-year living arrangements, I decided to reconvene my freshman year roommates to take advantage one more time of the idyllic mosaic of freshman year housing. Well, actually, roommates is not the technical term. I lived in the pod on the 3rd floor of Hurlbut my freshman year so technically the women I reconvened were my podmates. But that’s a word we like to use sparingly...
...stand up to such charged reality? Danticat, though, only 35 and already the author of three acclaimed works of fiction on her ill-starred home and one work of nonfiction, is undaunted. In The Dew Breaker she brings together myriad perspectives on the central torturer into a kind of mosaic. "It's a puzzle," as a teenage killer in one story says, "but a weird-ass kind of puzzle." A stained-glass window, he might be saying, catches a saint from the other world; a jigsaw puzzle catches someone far from saintly...