Word: porousness
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...guest-worker program that would allow illegal immigrants to obtain legal status for at least six years if they have a job and their employer vouches for them. The plan incensed conservatives. Talk-radio hosts and bloggers fanned resentment over "Press 1 for English" phone menus and borders porous to drugs and terrorists. In June, two months after a citizens' group called the Minuteman Project began vigilante patrols of the Mexican border, Bush told lawmakers he had not understood how important border security was to his base...
...protective polyester. What makes it so? Carbon from coconuts. The husks are heated to 1,600°F; the activated carbon (also found in water and air filters) is infused into yarns that make up the material. The carbon particles, kept activated by a patented process, create a porous surface that traps nasty smells and harmful rays and causes perspiration to evaporate quickly. A regular wash-and-dry cycle refreshes the fabric for more easy riding. Next Product: Keeping...
...boulders. But instead of being mortared together, the rocks are caged loosely behind a steel-mesh fencing so that light filters through them and into the building's interior. As with the de Young, their winery is a building with walls that are also not walls, both solid and porous...
...Corps of Engineers as the wranglers of an untamed river, has been plagued from the start by unintended consequences. To prevent catastrophic floods like the 1927 disaster that left 700,000 people homeless from Illinois to Louisiana, the Corps leveed and streamlined the Mississippi. That effort turned the meandering, porous waterway into the world's largest high-pressure hose, shooting sediment and nutrients off the continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. Starved of silt and undermined by oil-drilling operations, the delta has been sinking at the same time global warming has caused water levels to rise. The result...
Arguing that academia has become more “porous,” the report advocates fewer core divisions in light of the ways that different areas of study overlap, and also calls for students to have greater freedom in choosing their classes...