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...polygynous, mating with multiple females in their group. (It's good to be the silverback.) But there might just be something special about Leah. Breuer had earlier observed Leah (named inexactly after Princess Leia of Star Wars) using a crude tool - another first - testing out the depth of a pond with a long stick, rather than simply diving in. The very humanness of her experimentation struck him. "That observation was so interesting," says Breuer. "Very often they find solutions to problems in the same way as you or I would...
...There are few rinks in inner cities, and where there are facilities, you have to pay for ice time ? often at very odd morning and evening hours. And unless you live by a frozen Saskatchewan pond, you can't just round up your buddies for a pickup game. Between equipment, travel to rinks, and ice fees, hockey is also prohibitively expensive for many urban families. "How are you going to convince parents to pay $6,000 so their kids can play hockey?" asks Coleman. The NHL could invest more money to subsidize these costs for potential players, but with...
...either end, upon two colossal rocks - emphasize harmony with nature. The most striking photograph in Robson's book shows the candlelit open-air restaurant of Collure's hotel sublimely canopied by a jumbo black boulder. Mok's Morley Road House (Singapore, 1996) blends ancient Chinese garden designs - a koi pond, bamboo hedges - with sharp Modernist forms while blurring inside/outside spatial distinctions. Just so, Bawa's naturally ventilated Ena de Silva House (Sri Lanka, 1960) borrowed from Sinhalese manor houses and Kandyan spaces - shrine room, verandahs - to create something new: an innovative, urban courtyard home with windows that could be used...
...making.” Marianne took pains to explain the careful reasoning behind Aliza’s choice of satire: “She’s Jewish,” she said, pointing.In the end, Notre-Dame came in second place, losing only to a pagoda over a pond adorned with gumdrop lily-pads. Despite the cathedral’s dominance over many other sugar constructions, the sun, though setting in the West, was rising in the East. The contest was over, and we entered the Mather servery to discover that tonight’s entree was General Tso?...
...MacMahon was also an accomplished classical pianist. According to his son, he almost forwent his career in medicine to study music. Born in England, MacMahon attended the University of Birmingham. He served for two years as a ship’s doctor in the Royal Navy before crossing the pond to study in Brooklyn. He finally settled at Harvard in 1958, when he assumed leadership of the department. MacMahon retired from academia in 1989, soon after he stepped down as chair of epidemiology. He died after suffering complications from a stroke. Dimitrios Trichopoulos, who succeeded MacMahon as head...