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Over time, Kessler says--and computer simulations prove it--the rocks, under pressure from expanding bumps on all sides, are gradually forced into narrow strips that outline broad swaths of pure soil. At the same time, irregularities in the thickness of the rock lines are smoothed out by this continuous squeeze. Whether the final result looks like a circle or a polygon depends on how thick the initial stone layer is and how much the local soil expands when it freezes. Stripes turn up when the process happens on a hillside. No aliens necessary--and knowing how these remarkable shapes...
...down. We elected Woodrow Wilson as president when Roosevelt tried to run again in 1912. Wilson, a man after my own heart, showed real moral character when he had the courage to have the film Birth of a Nation screened at the White House. This film, a celebration of pure-bred American conservatism, was a moralistic fable that exposed black men’s carnal desire for white women and celebrated the Ku Klux Klan’s protection of the innocent white slaveholders...
...that the very technology it has been peddling all these years has been tremendously complex and expensive," says Barry Goffe, a group manager at Microsoft. Palmisano is quick to fire back at rivals, who have pushed their expensive, "best of breed" tech solutions to hapless customers. "The so-called pure plays were supposed to kill integrated players like IBM every day," he says. "But their model didn't fulfill the economic promises it made...
...masterpiece “Work It,” she renounces any pretense at literary substance in favor of infantile rhymes (“keep your eyes on my babumpabump-bump / and think you can handle this gadonkadonk-donk?”) that realize the joy of pure lyrical play and make the song’s ill bump’n’groove all the more infectious. “Meaning” is baggage in music that’s meant to be felt first, as Under Construction’s intensely visceral buzzing, booming songs prove...
Similarly, the poor tailor Motel (Andrew S. Obus ’03) is a hardworking, pure-hearted and clear-eyed young man who struggles to pull himself up by his bootstraps and win the girl he loves. Though Motel himself desperately wants to save money for a sewing machine, he represents the classic image of a young man accomplishing his greatest desire thanks to his pure, noble and determined—if timid—character...