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Such revelations are not surprising. When synesthetes are asked to link letters and words to their corresponding hues, the responses tend to be precise. (The n Feynman read in his physics equations wasn't just violet; it was "mildly violet-bluish.") Tested a year later, synesthetes report the same colors 9 times out of 10; control groups repeat them just a third of the time...
Widener under construction is a fantastic world. Predictably monumental in summer, the building takes on an imperial quality against the pale blues and violet greys of a winter sky, perpetually half-scaffolded like a Christo installation or the Sphinx...
...industrial prowess. But to walk at sunset over the tundra of the refuge--where there is silence, an eternity of chill whiteness, a lone raven high overhead and the tracks of an Arctic fox leading toward snowcapped mountains under a pale sky of aquamarine and violet--is to be in awe of something far greater. America now faces the momentous decision of what to do with all this whiteness...
...Nixon and Ford administrations before beginning a successful pharmaceutical career at G.D. Searle & Co. Pentagon officials and Bush see Rumsfeld as a counterweight to Colin Powell, the retired Army general tapped to run Bush's foreign policy. "General Powell is a strong figure and Dick Cheney is no shrinking violet, but neither is Don Rumsfeld," the President-elect said before making clear he would settle any squabbles among the trio...
...much sway will Powell and Cheney have over this guy when it comes to military policy? "Little," Bush replied. "Colin Powell is a strong figure and Dick Cheney is no shrinking violet. But neither is Don Rumsfeld." Nor should confirmation be a problem - it's not as if he lacks for a resume...