Word: ponding
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...Okyo painting of a waterfall, the water flows from the top right of one wall to the bottom left. But the viewer can't help noticing that the bottom left margin of the painting, where the water finally runs still, aligns perfectly with the waterline of a pond just across the walkway outside, suggesting the painting and the man-made pond form an unbroken continuum. Says Takubo: "By preserving things in the places they were created, you can feel how the whole building is a work...
...participate in extracurriculars as nonaccelerants and rate no differently on personal-adjustment scales. Some early entrants to college find freshman year difficult, but by the end of that year, they score virtually the same as older classmates do on psychological inventories. Some researchers have found a little-fish-big-pond effect on the self-esteem of kids who are moved into classes with intellectual equals for the first time. But the effect is usually small and temporary (and, some speculate, healthy for the often outsize egos of highly talented students...
...high-minded enough not to notice.) In keeping with the themes of nature that are threaded all through the display areas, it's a building landscaped with 150 species of trees and shrubs in a design guided by Donna House, a Navajo ethnobotanist. There's also a lily pond, plantings of corn, beans, squash and tobacco, and massive Canadian boulders. This being Washington, the rocks double as security barriers...
...Miss Clavel is still in charge and children proceed in quiet lines into the building covered with vines, and of course, my daughter loves it there. Like most other kids, she is fond of order and rules and schedules. It's just like my old Sunnyvale School, a quiet pond of books and pen and paper. But a parent stands on a precipice. Adolescence looms ahead, which nowadays can begin at around the age of 8. Drug dealers lurk in the alley; nihilist rock 'n' roll wafts up from the storm sewer; the culture of covetousness is everywhere...
...June, a network connecting Harvard, Boston University and BBN Technologies—a Fresh Pond company that helped invent the internet—was created...