Word: shatterable
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...They shatter a wine glass with a high pitch sound, use a ripple tank to demonstrate wave interactions and blast off across the lecture hall in a carbon dioxide-propelled rocket. Who are the people who perform these spectacular demonstrations during science lectures...
...plain Scripture" was "pestilential heresy." There were more things than words to treasure in a London, as depicted by Ackroyd, full of Maypoles and processions and founts of sacredness, a city in which each day was significant in God's calendar. More knew the King's marriage would shatter that order with the force of apocalypse. And he was right. His England was swept away in the ensuing years, replaced by one that disavowed the old pieties while hungering for them...
...Cooper, a programmer at the Sundance Film Festival (which this year received around 800 feature submissions for 45 slots). Still, the idea that many hundreds of movies are going unseen each year--even movies worse than the ones we do see--is sobering. Yes, show business is designed to shatter dreams, but come...
...star that has run out of fuel and collapsed to form a neutron star--a ball of matter just a dozen miles across, so dense that a teaspoonful weighs tens of millions of tons. In rare instances, a neutron star can generate a magnetic field strong enough to shatter the star's metallic surface, sending high-energy X rays and gamma rays blasting into space...
Then there are the implications for Kristen's family. Because this is a familial gene, there is a good chance that her 20-year-old niece has the same problem. By telling her this news, Kristen will effectively shatter her world too. If the niece also tests positive, to whom should she divulge this? Her boyfriend; her fiance? Should the young woman have a mastectomy? Should she have children, when the chances of her daughters' having it are 50%? The niece too will be tempted to lie on official forms. Clark, Iglehart, Kristen and her husband talk about all this...