Word: outerness
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...been at the job for an exhausting four years. In that time he has tried to redirect, as much as one man can, the Harvard admissions office from choosing solely from Philadelphia's more prestigious prep schools--as has always been the case--to at first some unexamined outer suburban schools, and then the forgotten parochial and inner city schools...
...inch in diameter. The capsule was attached to the end of a catheter inside a catheter, which was inserted into a large vein in Suzette Marie's right thigh and worked through a pathway of veins into the heart (see diagram). The doctors then pushed the capsule and outer catheter first into the right atrium and finally into the left atrium, extended the first umbrella and pulled it back against the edges of the opening. Then they drew the catheters back through the hole into the right atrium, opened the second umbrella, locked it to the first and sealed...
Determining that certain areas are more essential to the U.S. than others does not mean that countries elsewhere are cast into outer darkness as far as the U.S. is concerned. There are many kinds of relations short of serious commitment and many degrees of importance. In general, the U.S. should stop regarding the world in domino terms, not only because the image implies an automatic chain of cause and effect that is unreal but also because it poses a simplistic choice between a country that "stands" and a country that "falls." The real world is far more complex than that...
Last week Mariner established beyond doubt that Mercury's field was distinctly its own. Scientists believe that the earth's magnetism is generated by a dynamo-like motion within its liquid outer core caused by the earth's rotation. But whether Mercury also has a liquid core is a subject of debate. Even if it does the planet probably rotates too slowly (once every 58⅔ earth days) for the dynamo effect to occur. Thus, as Mariner fell silent in its eternal orbit of the sun, it left behind a major mystery: How did Mercury acquire...
...Skinner. At one time, some of these birds played ping pong in Skinner boxes. Some spend time dancing together--also in boxes. Some were conditioned to hobble around in figure eights. Others were lucky enough to get out of the smelly lab and travel in what seemed to be outer space. During World War II, Skinner trained them to guide missles to a target for Project Pigeon, a research project financed by the Navy but never employed...