Word: wets
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...around in your socks yet still feel stylish. Cloudlike beds, deep baths and inspiring views are standard in each room, but my favorite is 23: a clawfoot bathtub lies just an arm's stretch from the bed, perfectly positioned for Snaefells to rise up from behind your wet toes. In the restaurant, 22-year-old chef Andri Johannsson cooks with a Michelin flair. Lobster bisque infused with calvados, honey-roasted catfish, and lamb that quite literally melts in your mouth are served with organic vegetables grown in the hotel garden and wild herbs picked in local lava fields. On weekends...
...other ecological events, the Resource Efficiency Program has been encouraging students to air-dry their laundry and use only a “shot glass” of detergent. Ever the environmentalists, Gadfly gave their suggestions a try but ended up wet, cold and in the emergency room...
...several former prisoners, women who have become pregnant while in China are not uncommonly required to give birth while still in detention and then forced to watch as their own babies are killed. Hawk's report contains eight eyewitness accounts-including one of a child suffocated with a wet towel in front of its mother's eyes-and separately, TIME interviewed two women, who did not want to be identified, who claim to have seen either forced abortions or the murder of newborns...
...warmth aspect is also ideal for the long, cold, windy Cambridge winter days. “I appreciate the fur because as a tiny Floridian, it keeps me warm, and in the rain, we know these animals can get wet,” says Alexa Von Tobel ’06, a convert to the fur-craze of the winter. The hood serves as a sort of retreat from the cold, with the fur as an added buffer...
...looks like water. It pours, flows and sloshes like water. But it doesn't get things wet. Its name is 3M Novec 1230 Fire Protection Fluid, and its chemical formula looks like alphabet soup. (It's technically a fluorinated ketone, whatever that means.) But you can dunk a laptop computer in it, and it'll come out bone dry and working fine. That makes this wonder fluid perfect for putting out fires in offices, computer rooms and museums. Just don't try drinking...