Word: subjection
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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Fedorov agrees that the new paper doesn't solve the puzzle of a warmer Pliocene by itself. "This is just part of the story," he says. "It's still the subject of intense research. We describe one piece of the puzzle, but there are many more pieces...
...alone in her most recent piece, “a.k.a.” The work consists of pairs of framed photographs of the artist at various stages of her life. Like the photographs of the sea, each image is incredibly different despite being joined by the common denominator of subject matter—in this case, a frontal headshot of Horn...
...grey crew cut. The composition of each of the photographs—Horn’s head tilted to opposite sides—produces a reflective quality; one image could be flipped across the vertical axis to cover the other. This mirror-like possibility literalizes the actual mirroring of subject matter. The similarity and differences within the pair are simultaneously stressed...
...most common laments one hears from voters - and there are a lot of them these days - is that members of Congress aren't subject to term limits. There's a perception, accurate in some cases, that longevity in office leads to corruption and that greater turnover would somehow fix Washington's gridlock...
Currently 15 state legislatures and 36 governors are subject to term limits. "The experience in states, including California, has been negative: assembly members look to run for the state senate or Congress, Senators look for congressional seats, or lawmakers look out for cushy jobs in the private sector afterward, thus giving more power to the permanent staff. Bad idea," says Norm Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute and co-author of The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track...