Word: shelfful
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...were handing out Super Bowl commemorative Crocs-blue with orange or orange with blue, all gratis. The party felt busy, but there was never a line, whether it was for the roast pig at the savory station, the decadent bittersweet chocolate truffles on the desert tray, or the top-shelf liquor at one of the bars. Wretched excess was exactly enough." (Read "Thrown for a Loss: Super Bowl Parties...
...fluent Punjabi and Urdu), Mueenuddin writes with an understanding of the hierarchies and traditions of Pakistani life but also with an appreciation for what Western audiences know and, more likely, don't know about life in a country that features far more prominently in newspapers than on the fiction shelf. "I am deep in my heart apolitical in my writing," he says. "There are plenty of soapboxes one can stand upon, but one of them is not a short story." In the world of In Other Rooms, all politics is local: the never-ending battle against corruption, the violence that...
...many more rules remain on the books. They include regulations that allow mountaintop-removal mining projects to pollute streambeds with leftover dirt, and a Bush move to begin to permit drilling for oil and gas on the Outer Continental Shelf. Worse, they also include a drastic weakening of the Endangered Species Act, allowing federal agencies to bypass expert advice from federal scientists on whether proposed projects would have an impact on endangered species, essentially cutting the heart out of the act. "The number of regulations where the Bush Administration succeeded far outnumbered the ones where they failed," says Walke...
...Diego. (Black carbon manifests as soot particles that comprise brown clouds.) While carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere respond on a sluggish 100-year timescale to reductions in emissions, soot particles, whose effects are equivalent to roughly half the warming damage that carbon dioxide does, have a shelf life of only a few weeks. Environmentalists have joined scientists' call to urge governments to cut pollution by introducing more efficient heating stoves in developing countries and turning to solar power and other clean sources of energy. "We need sustainable growth in every city in this world," says Edwin Lau Che Feng...
...your planetarium played a part in setting off this controversy. How did that come about? We rebuilt the Hayden Planetarium between 1997 and 2000 at great expense. There was new science that needed to go in the facility, and you want the most reliable, longest-shelf-life science you can come up with. So I called in a panel of experts on the status of Pluto. And by the end of the night, it was clear that Pluto's day was over and it was time to rethink the structure and the form of the outer solar system. Our exhibit...