Word: scarring
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...hours from platform 9? at London's King's Cross station, a cluster of students in starry robes, pointed hats and rep ties are learning how plants grow, but it's not botany; they call it "herbology." In an adjacent classroom a boy with a famous lightning-bolt scar brandishes his wand, chants "Numerus Subtracticus!" and conjures the correct answer to a math problem...
...recently dropped my gizmo down the stairs. This was an unhappy event. It survived, but with a fat, thumb-shaped dead zone on the screen, a reminder of my negligence every time I can't read the end of an e-mail. It's like that tiny scar on your little girl's cheek where the swing hit her because you turned away for a second. There must be some natural law, that the smaller something is, the more emotional space it takes up, the more time and energy it absorbs...
...about India, also written in English and from afar: one by an Indian publisher living in Canada, the other by an ethnic Indian born and raised in East Africa and also living in Canada. Interestingly, both books examine the themes of extremism and sectarian violence - curses that continue to scar India and detract from the many great gains the country has made economically in the past decade...
...also adds as much as 20% to the cost of the cement.) Cover 15% of the exposed surfaces of a city like Milan, Borgarello estimates, and you could cut pollution in half. And as a bonus, TX helps buildings stay whiter than white by resisting the pollutants that scar and stain cement over time. It's a benefit that's visible in the first structure to use TX cement, the 2003 Dives in Misericordia church in Rome by the architect Richard Meier, who is famous for his white buildings and who likes to see them stay that...
...notion of being innocent until proven guilty was polluted, and the stigma of the accusations—false though they may have been—is permanently grafted to their names. Even beyond the gnarled ruins this case made of its participants, there lies on its behalf a lasting scar on the American attitude toward sexual assault. The discussion of the crime here was undermined by the fervor about the case and its ensuing collapse. This dilutes the public understanding of the crime and its pervasiveness, and represents a strike against the just resolution of genuine instances of sexual assault...