Word: polarizing
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Mark says that for a sadomasochist, there is a difference between harm and hurt. Harm he tries to avoid at all costs; hurt, however, is good. “Pain and pleasure are not polar opposites to us. There’s painful pleasure; there’s pleasurable pain,” Mark says. “Pain to us is simply sensation that is very intense. Because it’s so intense, like a bright light, people normally might shy away from it. But people who enjoy that intensity will go towards...
Taking on the challenge of tactfully poking fun at the institution of celebrity, Kaling and Withers set their play in Damon’s post-Harvard years, pitting the two against one another as polar opposites whose friendship transcends their differences...
Global warming, caused in part by the burning of oil and gas in factories and cars, is traumatizing polar regions, where the complex meteorological processes associated with snow, permafrost and ice magnify its effects. A study published in Science last week reported that glaciers in West Antarctica are thinning twice as fast as they did in the 1990s. In Alaska the annual mean air temperature has risen 4F to 5F in the past three decades--compared with an average of just under 1F worldwide. As a result, the state's glaciers are melting; insects are destroying vast...
Different computer trickery created The Polar Express, which might also be called Gollum: The Movie. The same technology used to create the The Lord of the Rings wretch brings this supertrain adventure to life. That, plus Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis...
...competitive sports, where high stakes and high technology are combining to push the limits of human performance--often without leaving chemical evidence that science is helping nature. Scientists and athletes increasingly find themselves in symbiotic research, both driven to achieve the same goal of enhancing physical ability, but with polar-opposite motivations. Scientists want to treat debilitating diseases, while elite athletes look to the labs for a competitive edge...