Word: silver
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...probably won't become the next Harvard Square icon, but a massive stylized sculpture of yellow and silver metal bearing the words "Harvard Yard Information" certainly drew a lot of attention yesterday...
There are only a few hundred documented cases of adoption or foster parenting by open gays. But many prospective gay parents conceal their orientation, so the actual number is surely larger. Gary Morin of Silver Spring, Maryland, found it much easier to adopt Jonathon, now 4, as a single parent than he would have as part of a gay couple. "I didn't have to worry about hiding a second person's clothes or pretending that I lived alone." Although exhausted by the demands of single parenthood combined with his job as a sign-language instructor, Morin is eager...
...region owes much of its boom to the energy bust of the mid-'80s, which forced companies to downsize and the states -- notoriously overreliant on natural resources ever since the silver rushes of the 1870s and 1880s -- to diversify. Idaho also continued to help small companies grow larger while encouraging the new high-tech industries around Boise. Wyoming revived its moribund coal fields with the world's most highly automated mining processes. Colorado financed an ambitious drive to make Denver an international hub with a new $3 billion airport. Utah restructured its copper and steel mills and absorbed their laid...
...silver frame holding the menu below sat on each table at Vernon Jordan's birthday party for President Clinton on Martha's Vineyard...
...before Ramses, the first empire the world ever knew was built by a Mesopotamian ruler named Sargon of Akkad. He conquered and subjugated dozens of cities and villages between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers more than 4,000 years ago, forcing them to pay tribute in wheat, barley and silver. For a century the regime flourished, first under Sargon and then under his grandson until suddenly, mysteriously, it collapsed. Neither the capital city of Akkad, famed for its harbor filled with vessels from distant shores, nor the imperial records, etched in cuneiform and possibly chronicling the empire's demise, have...