Word: vacuums
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...holds little water when war is a potentially viable solution, but none at all if the conflict is not a winnable one. The government of Colombia is simply not in a military position to crush FARC, and even if it were, in so doing it would leave a power vacuum that AUC would gladly fill. As Lee points out, the government handed FARC a huge swath of land in the middle of Colombia, and FARC’s forces are by no means inconsiderable—they are stronger than Colombia’s. FARC’s members...
...lightness and durability was put to some surprising uses - such as an aluminum violin from the 1930s and the statue of Eros in London's Piccadilly Circus, the world's first aluminum public sculpture. It also became the material of choice for products from coffee pots to vacuum cleaners. But aluminum seems to find its most frequent expression as seating. There's an eclectic range of chairs in the Design Museum show, including Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair, designs by Charles and Ray Eames, and Philippe Starck's pale green barstool made for German film director Wim Wenders...
Kirshner attributes this acceleration to “dark energy” that acts as a vacuum, sucking the universe farther and farther out into the emptiness of space. According to Kirshner, dark energy was previously unknown...
...don’t, however, live our lives in a vacuum. In truth, the story of my life begins on Ông Ngoai’s farm and in those alleys where my mother learned about survival. Poverty, toil and war—these are the things that shaped her survivalist mentality. This mentality remains a constant point of contention between us. When I took a late leave of absence last semester, she ridiculed the notion of “taking time...
...geared myself for the challenge of eating my way through the menu, skeptical that anything could puncture my bubble of imperviousness to heat. To prime my palate, I ordered a Cold Fusion Martini from Hell ($6), reported to have been “transported from MIT in a plutonium vacuum canister.” It looked innocuous enough, like a regular martini really, but, our waitress warned, the vodka had been infused with chili peppers. Lovely, I thought, as it barely warmed my mouth...