Word: attempt
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...faceless seasoned Skulls in monk's cloaks. Later, as part of the initiation process, two of the pledges are required to enter a cage-like apparatus, which dates back to the 17th century and resembles a medieval torture device, and reveal their deepest, darkest secrets. And as an attempt to settle an irreconcilable dispute between two members there is a duel using archaic pistols. Apparently this is a common method of settling intra-Skulls disputes, since in the movie there is actually a statute regarding duels in the Skulls' rule book. These practices are an attempt to recreate the bygone...
...attempt on the part of these groups to create an aristocracy based on gender, race, old money and blue-blooded lineage is increasingly difficult now that the Ivy League has made a concerted effort to foster equality and diversity and to increase the availability of financial...
HORGAN: Sure, scientists are keeping busy, but what are they actually accomplishing? My argument is that science in its grandest sense--the attempt to comprehend the universe and our place in it--has entered an era of diminishing returns. Scientists will continue making incremental advances, but they will never achieve their most ambitious goals, such as understanding the origin of the universe, of life and of human consciousness. Most people find this prediction hard to believe, because scientists and journalists breathlessly hype each new breakthrough, whether genuine or spurious, and ignore all the areas in which science makes little...
...with Casimir plates separated by only 400 proton diameters at the midpoint. Time travelers would have to somehow open doors in these plates to pass through the wormhole. The mass required for construction? Two hundred million times the mass of the sun. These are projects only a supercivilization could attempt--not something for 21st century engineers...
...smooth or rough the faults are, what kind of rock is found there, what goes on just before and after a quake. Laboratory experiments can reproduce the pressures to simulate the environment at the initiation point, but without knowing the effects of pressure building up over the centuries, any attempt to release it could backfire. Says Mary Lou Zoback, chief scientist of the hazards team: "If we generated a 1906 earthquake, that would be the end of the USCG." And maybe Los Angeles...