Word: shedding
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...Inside the laboratories, attention to the needs of the scientists and students prevails. D. Allan Drummond, a Bauer Fellow working in the building, says, “The new lab space is gorgeous.”Drummond explains that the new facilities are a significant improvement as they shed an old, peripatetic quality. “The previous labs were designed to be rapidly shifted; they were meant to be mobile,” he says. “This kept us from having some things like overhead storage space.” The building houses a range of departments...
...life: men who want to change outward gender wait an average of 10 years longer to transition than women, according to the new article by Schilt and Wiswall. "MTFs attempt to preserve their male advantage at work for as long as possible," they write, "whereas FTMs may seek to shed their female gender identity more quickly." It should be noted that many transgender men do experience discrimination, especially if they are short and if they don't look convincingly male. Also, it's harder for MTFs to pass than FTMs: men who become women still have large hands and bigger...
...feminists examining muliebrity (the condition of being a woman), or soothsayers putting out their latest vaticination (prophecy), the available lexicon may soon get slimmer. The lexicographers behind Britain's Collins English Dictionary have decided to exuviate (shed) rarely used and archaic words as part of an abstergent (cleansing) process to make room for up to 2,000 new entries. "We want the dictionary to be a reflection of English as it is currently spoken," says Ian Brookes, managing editor of Collins, "rather than a fossilized version of the language...
...tomes touting that 2004 title, their first in 86 years? (And they won again last October, so greater Bostonians, please spare us any more soppy, self-pitying salutes to Pesky, Yaz and Teddy Ballgame.) As another October arrives, there's only one baseball team yet to shed its truly historic loser label. Sure, the Cleveland Indians have been championship-starved since 1948. But when you haven't won a title in, literally, a century, like those lovable, laughable Chicago Cubbies, a 60-year losing streak seems like just a few bad days at the office. "I defy anybody...
...that John McCain has decided to attend Friday night's debate, Ole Miss should be able to breathe easy. The presidential debate, after all, is supposed to be Ole Miss's big moment. Hosting the first such forum of the general campaign, administrators hoped, would help the school shed the racial-backwater image that has clung to it since its embattled 1962 integration, when 120 federal marshals could barely hold back the violent riots that left two civilians dead and dozens injured. The fact that the debate participants will include Barack Obama, the nation's first black presidential nominee...