Word: porousness
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...Bears (4-14, 1-5) took advantage of porous interior defense in shooting 57 percent from the floor mostly due to easy buckets in the post. The athletic forward Kamal Roundtree came off the bench to score 17 points on perfect seven-for-seven shooting against a defensive unit which was clearly unprepared to deal with his quickness on the inside. HARVARD 60 BROWN 71 HARVARD 65 YALE...
Yale: The Bulldogs' secondary is porous. This unity is riddled by inexperience and opposing passers. The defensive backs are the weakness of the defense and can be exploited...
...decades, and they are spending big money to fight the threat--more than $400 million in federal counterterror programs alone. State and local efforts are becoming more serious too; the New York City drill is an example. But experts insist the country is essentially insecure. The borders are porous, the government cannot keep track of routine visa violators, and the population is forever on the move. The U.S. is a sea into which evildoers can dive and remain submerged. Terrorists, like anyone else, have little difficulty obtaining guns or the simple makings for oil-barrel truck bombs...
Copper was an obvious replacement, but it had a couple of problems that seemed insurmountable. The first emerged when scientists tried to lay copper onto silicon. The tiny copper atoms filtered into the porous silicon like hot coffee dripping though a percolator. Copper is so conductive that just one hyperkinetic atom could "poison" the entire silicon surface...
Meanwhile, the teacher, ever desperate to exhibit vital signs, forages for inspirational material. How to convey that this stuff is essential? How to get across that what is not practically useful is most useful? They are salmon in the springtime, and Professor Backwards has one small porous net. To catch even one or two. Is that worth a life, Mr. Chips...