Word: porousness
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...will have begun to understand that Nouvel's buildings can be hard to pin down. His name is one variant of the French word for new, and he does his best to live up to it. He likes to upend old notions of inside and out, solid and porous, to say nothing of where windows should be or how comfortable you should feel about standing on one over an 18-m drop.[an error occurred while processing this directive] What Nouvel is doing with his arms over his head is making a little joke about floating in space...
...will have begun to understand that Nouvel's buildings can be hard to pin down. His name is one variant of the French word for new, and he does his best to live up to it. He likes to upend old notions of inside and out, solid and porous, to say nothing of where windows should be or how comfortable you should feel about standing on one over a 60-ft. drop. What Nouvel is doing with his arms over his head is making a little joke about floating in space, but he looks more as though he were about...
...body synthesizes new skeletal tissue faster than it dies. Then the balance reverses, with bone being lost faster than it is replaced. In osteoporosis, that normal wasting away reaches such a hazardous level that bones become fragile. They lose their usual spongelike appearance and are more like porous lace. While both men and women experience bone loss, women are much more susceptible to osteoporosis. Bone deteriorates faster after menopause, probably in part because of a sharp drop in levels of the hormone estrogen...
...this tripartite organization does not do justice to the increasingly porous boundaries between the divisions. In a striking move, the Committee on General Education came up with a new idea: maybe we could have our cake and eat it too. We could combine distribution among the three traditional divisions of learning with a set of special integrating courses that would cross disciplinary boundaries and present some of the most exciting new work being done today...
...Bush aides brainstormed about how to spend border-security funds recently approved by the Senate. Some Governors questioned adding another burden to forces already strained by deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, but the idea delighted conservatives, who see it as the kind of strong move needed to secure the porous border...