Word: polisher
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...people can build such warmth among themselves so swiftly." It's a statement (by another London-based writer originally from someplace else) Afolabi has chosen as the epigraph for Goodbye Lucille - an epigraph that highlights the heartening capacity for connection in unexpected places. "I have Polish friends and Ghanaian friends and Indian friends," says Afolabi, "friends across the spectrum. I read the other day that the largest ethnic group in London was mixed-race children. I was pretty gobsmacked, and encouraged as well. I hope that's the future...
...world of astronomy, the venerated Polish-born theoretical astrophysicist Bohdan Paczynski was a renegade, forever proposing ideas dubbed outlandish by colleagues. Yet Paczynski changed the way we look at the sky. In the 1980s he refined a technique called microlensing, allowing scientists a more textured view of the galaxy. In the '90s he and a team of Polish researchers established a sweeping--and ongoing--project to capture all celestial activity and record rare events like killer asteroids. He was 67 and had brain cancer...
...seeing things—they were kind of mundane and most people wanted to get out.” And after establishing his street cred, Jenkins felt free to also take on race-relations. And why not? He is Third Eye Blind... “You are black and Polish and Portuguese. You are a mutt,” he says, pointing and gesticulating emphatically. “We are mutts. Race is just falling away so quickly and yet in this country, it’s still our unfinished business...The other side is that it?...
...Hakluyt had imagined that the colonies "would yield unto us all the commodities of Europe, Africa and Asia." Perhaps the settlers would discover gold. All they found were a few semiprecious stones--garnets, amethysts, quartz crystals. Perhaps they could manufacture glass. One resupply ship brought eight German and Polish craftsmen. Most of them ran off to live with the Indians...
...served for another 15 minutes, he swipes his card at the entrance of Lowell House dining hall and walks into the feeding area, clad in his unmistakable red-and-black plaid hoodie.The UC vice president has been awake since 6:00 a.m. already, trying to polish off a bit of reading for one of the three philosophy classes that round out his course load this semester. But despite having attended a Delta Gamma sorority formal in Boston the previous night, he doesn’t appear to be affected by a lack of sleep. The thrust of this morning?...