Word: artificiales
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Mary had neglected to tell her sister that she had given up artificial color. So as the twins drew near each other, Alice recalls, "I got to watch my undyed older self walking toward me. I was sort of fascinated. My roots told me I was as gray or grayer...
Animals have had it even worse. If prostheses existed at all, they have been comparatively crude things. Surgeons have had some success attaching artificial beaks to birds that veterinarians suspect were mutilated by fishermen who didn't want the animals competing for their catch. Dogs and cats with disabled hind...
What disturbed me most about the Weathermen, I realized, wasn’t that the group had violently attempted to overthrow the U.S. government but that I had to come 5,500 miles to learn about it. Perhaps Argentina’s young radicals aren’t so far...
The provision Kravis and others are lobbying to save is spectacularly unfair. These billionaires enjoy a lower tax rate than the people who clean their toilets. Oh, sure, arguments can be made for this. These arguments usually turn on the metaphysical distinction between ordinary income and capital gains. And there...
But the language difference was only one factor in my blindness to the country’s problems. The real reason I misunderstood everything was that I visited Romania as a privileged outsider. Everything seemed nice from my hotel room, from the superficial pleasantries. I took a sterilized and artificial...