Word: rayed
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...nature were on my mind during a recent pilgrimage to see a new piece of technology in the Italian Alps town of Viganella, nestled in a valley near the Swiss border. It sounds cozy, but come wintertime, nestled turns nasty, as not a ray of sun touches the town for nearly three months. So Viganella's mayor got the bright idea to install a giant, rotating mirror on a 900-m-high ridge to reflect the sun down on the shaded town's lone piazza...
...consequences of small size. "To those who say she has a right to develop and grow," argues Gunther, "[I say] Ashley has no concept of these things." But he is talking as a scientist; the philosopher uses different tools. Just because autonomy doesn't show up on an X-ray doesn't mean it can't be harmed by a scalpel. And if rights are inalienable, they exist whether the patient is aware of them...
...that Brenda L. Croft retrieved from her late father's shoebox of slides, and Darren Siwes' ghostly self-portrait projected onto a Henson-like night-time landscape, to vacated urban spaces in which we are left to trace subtle signs of life-whether it be in a ray of sunlight retreating from Annie Hogan's Brisbane rental house, or the silvery spray of Scott Redford's Gold Coast urinal. Such images remind us that reality is sometimes best expressed by what is absent or left behind. The exhibition is not called light sensitive for nothing (this also happens...
...Anyone who thinks rope skipping is child's play hasn?t been to the 3-hour-a-day practices run by coach Ray Frederick, Jr., of the Bouncing Bulldogs in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In a typical session, team members climb 2000 to 3000 football stadium steps and do 500 one-footed jumping jacks. That hard work has paid off. "We've won the national championship three years in a row now, and that's never happened before," says Frederick, whose team currently consists of 95 boys and girls, ranging from ages...
...social consequences of smallness. "To those who say she has a right to develop and grow," argues Dr. Daniel Gunther, "Ashley has no concept of these things." But he is talking as a scientist; the philosopher uses different tools. Just because autonomy doesn't show up on an X-ray doesn't mean it can't be harmed by a scalpel. And if rights are inalienable, they exist whether the patient is aware of them...