Word: potted
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...major honors. Last week the prestigious Overseas Press Club of America added three more. Correspondents Walter Isaacson and Donald Neff were given the O.P.C.'s Mary Hemingway Award for best magazine reporting from abroad, for their work on last year's cover story "The Colombian Connection: Billions in Pot and Coke." Neff interviewed drug enforcement officials in New York, Miami and Bogotá, and surveyed by small plane the clandestine airstrips and marijuana plantations of Colombia's remote Guajira province. "We got shot at when we flew too low," says Neff. "They probably thought we were hijackers after their crop." Isaacson...
...catch these particles, the physicists placed a sealed container of deuterium, or heavy water, 11.2 meters (37 ft.) from the reactor. Immersed in the liquid were ten helium-filled tubes wired to an external oscilloscope. The detection apparatus was shielded in lead and cadmium cylinders and a foot-thick "pot" to block everything but neutrinos. As the particles barreled through the heavy water, some scored bull's-eye hits on the nuclei of its hydrogen atoms, which contain an extra neutron. These collisions produced other particles, including more neutrons that struck the helium-filled tubes and registered...
...Times weren't mature enough before for the establishment of the center," Ussia says. Until recently, the "melting pot" concept was foremost in the minds of Italian-Americans. "The idea was that you could put someone in the melting pot, wash him clean, and leave on him the imprimatur of America--but that didn't work. If I wanted a cup of espresso in the North End, I'd go whether they had put me in a pot...
...year-old engineer from Brookline calls "constructive ethnicity" the successor to the notion of a great American melting pot. "All ethnic groups have to synthesize the best values of their culture in the formulation of the new American ideals," Ussia says, adding that changing demographics and a resurgence of ethnic pride will form this new American culture...
...ability of government to shape the future," Sullivan counters, but he too says "to a certain extent what we are doing is putting a lid on a pressure cooker. Occasionally, though the lid can be kept on, depending on how much pressure gets turned up under the pot." Should the ordinances and the controls fail, there is another line of resistance, though. "What we're doing is buying time to get our act together." Vickery explains. "right now, our efforts are fragmented." If the city's housing authority, redevelopment office and city planners work together, Vickery says, federal money could...