Word: wets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subway tunnels or, if their situation were more pressing, into cabs. Around 5 p.m., my sister and I gave up and hopped on the T which came almost immediately. On the blue line we found ourselves sitting across from another Harvard student who asked us why we were so wet. "Ah yes," he nodded knowingly when we told him. "My roommate tried that last year." --Scott A. Rifkin...
...surfers on that growing [high-tech] wave," CAA president Richard Lovett told a crowd of bold-faced names like Jennifer Aniston and Michael Crichton. "Some of you in this room are already old pros...but there are many of us who are afraid of getting our feet wet...
...Harvard community withstood its first touch of Old Man Winter yesterday as a midday storm dumped two inches of wet, slushy snow on the ground...
...Ritts uses photography to explore the human form, distilling it into clean, pure lines. Sometimes this concentration on form and line reduces the very humanity of the subject. In one photograph from a series taken at the beach, a woman heads out to sea. The smooth mass of wet hair plastered against her naked back and the dark triangle of her bikini bottom both define and contrast with the shape of her body against the glossy ripples of the ocean. The visual statement of these two dark splotches against her skin is so powerful that it almost overwhelms the knowledge...
...were more dramatic? If living to the century mark involves little more than riding the demographic wave, how much further than 100 is it possible to go? Is 150 reasonable? 200? What about 300? And if not, why not? The body, after all, is just a machine--albeit a wet, cranky, willful one--and, as with all machines, it should be possible to extend the warranty. "There is no evidence we know of that human life expectancy is anywhere close to its ultimate limit," says James Vaupel, a Duke University demographer and the soon-to-be director...