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...people should raise and slaughter animals. Even though PETA’s prize is presented for the wrong reasons, it will still nonetheless be a boost to a field that could take decades to mature. And when it does, I call dibs on the first rack of polar bear ribs.Steven T. Cupps ’09, a Crimson Editorial Editor, is a biological anthropology and economics concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
While Morris' film has a polished look, the Harold & Kumar movie is scrupulously scruffy. It's also the polar opposite in its approach to political responsibility...
...We’ve only paid half, so they’re bound to come back for the other half.” But, the plot line does feature some clumsy twists. There never is an explanation for the island, and when the smoke monsters and polar bears come in a la “Lost” and we discover that the characters are sitting on a restless volcano, we know that this play is veering off the path of realism. The play pokes fun at its own lapses in logic, and the actors make their characters so much...
What do we talk about when we talk about global warming? It'll get hotter, that's a safe bet; polar ice caps will be melting, and wildlife that can't adapt to warmer temperatures could be on the way out. But what does it really mean for the health of us, the human race? It's a question that remains surprisingly difficult to answer - research into climate change's impacts on human health have lagged behind other areas of climate science. But what we do know has scientists and doctors increasingly worried - a rising risk of death from heat...
...universe as Pullman's Golden Compass, where every human is accompanied by a talking-animal soul mate called a daemon. It's a prequel, the story of how a young and not-yet-grizzled Lee Scoresby, gunslinging aeronaut extraordinaire, and his rabbit daemon, Hester, first met up with armored polar bear Iorek Byrnison. Nobody writes dialogue for gunslingers like a Brit: "Damn, Hester," Scoresby says, "you don't hit a drunk man with a stick." And, of course, nobody anywhere writes dialogue for bears like Pullman...