Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dewar's Scotch "Profile" advertisementwidely published in magazines described him as"Energetic, warm, penetrating. Driven by a thirstfor new knowledge that may lead to new truths...
...rugged, snow-mantled mountainside above Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Joloi Beishenov tends his flock on horseback, as his ancestors did centuries ago. During the cold season he shelters his 70 sheep in two traditional canvas yurts and lives alone in a spartan wooden shack until the warm weather brings his family up from the lowlands. This spring there is another new season, the opening out of the former Soviet Union; Beishenov has heard about new economic reforms, and hopes to rent from a neighboring state farm the strip of stony pasture he uses for grazing. But he is unmoved...
Angel's approach relies less on intricate control systems and more on vitreous wizardry. The 10-ton mirror he and his colleagues plan to install in Arizona -- merely a warm-up for some 8-m versions -- boasts a light-collecting surface that is nearly as wide as a house is tall, yet it averages only 2.8 cm thick. What prevents this marvel from fracturing under its own weight is a supporting truss composed of thousands of glass ribs that are cast as part of the mirror's underlying structure. Arrayed in a striking hexagonal pattern, the ribs form an airy...
...spends the day fishing from a canoe on the reservoir, the entire town of Hopkinton turns out for Race Day. Every able-bodied adult, it seems, directs traffic, cooks at one of the fast-food booths on the town green, or wears an official staff warm-up jacket and speaks into a walkie-talkie...
Betsy tried a similar approach with Jerome P. Facher of Hale and Dorr. While she didn't get a job, for once she got a very warm letter that didn't start with "unfortunately." That world didn't come until the second sentence when he said that unfortunately, the firm may have a policy against "engaging another Facher (however remote the relationship...