Word: thinning
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...many people eating with their coats on,” said Julio E. Guzman ’05, a Mather resident who for the past few days has noticed a thin coat of ice spreading across his window. “It’s not cold in my room anymore, but in the communal areas it’s still chilly...
...rise was largely due to a shortage of cattle; ranchers had abandoned the business because of thin profits. The U.S. herd--some 96 million cattle--is at a seven-year low. Short supply had run headlong into the popularity of high-protein diets like Atkins, which promote lots of meat on your plate. And then came Washington's decision last summer to stop importing live Canadian cattle, which accounted for 7% of U.S. beef consumption. Delighted cattlemen from Texas to Montana rushed to fill the void as prices went through the roof. Choice cuts became particularly pricey, in part because...
Under a microscope, the sensors, called microcantilevers, resemble rows of diving boards or spatulas, each vibrating spontaneously. They can be made so thin that 100 would fit snugly inside a human hair. The cantilever is coated on one side with a chemical that specifically binds a target molecule--say, a cancer-related protein or a plastic explosive. When that molecule sticks to it, the cantilever bends and the frequency of its vibration changes, which can be measured by bouncing a laser beam off its surface. Thundat and his team are only months from completing an exquisitely sensitive handheld detector that...
When cricketer Stephen Rodger Waugh was first selected for Australia as a whippet-thin all-rounder in 1985, the side was struggling, and Waugh was no instant hero. (He took four years to make his first century.) But Australians admire a battler, and Waugh looked as if he could fight a bushfire and save his team from defeat in the same afternoon...
With that mindset, Harvard sprinted out to an early lead, touching the wall first in five of the first seven races. The advantage would have been more substantial were it not for two razor-thin Navy victories in the 200-meter freestyle and then the 100-meter breaststroke two events later...