Word: specialist
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Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann, a long-time veteran of Democratic administrations and a specialist in international criminal law, was nominated Friday for the position of deputy attorney general...
Locating the right materials has become easier too. The AIA now publishes an Environmental Resource Guide. And architect Paul Bierman-Lytle, a specialist in building environmentally sensitive homes, has put together an alternative building-products catalog that lists more than 2,600 materials and technologies. More recently he helped establish an eco-mall for environmental construction materials. First begun in 1981 as a mail-order business, Environmental Construction Outfitters now has a 5,000-sq.-ft. loft in New York City that showcases everything from natural carpeting and cork flooring to solar energy, cotton insulation and environmental paints. The emporium...
...does he know? Moores is a specialist in ocean crust, which he routinely discovers high and dry in the Sierra Nevada. "The whole vast assemblage of transported deep-ocean rock," writes McPhee, "now rests on California like a ship stuck in sand, listing thirty degrees to the west." Scientist and writer poke through the wreckage. They straddle fault lines and sift through road cuts while impatient drivers speed...
...This winter especially has been hard for people-usually activities are cancelled when schools are closed," said Army Bern stein, information and referral specialist at the Cambridge Council on Aging...
...program, which brings reading specialists to a child's home and then continues to work with children until they reach the third grade, has been offered in some Cambridge schools full-time but not offered at all in others. McGrath said her office is interested ensuring equity in specialist availability...