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...served as a catalyst to get the issue [of racism] out of the closet," says Northeastern Law Professor Denise S. Carty-Bennia, adding that the incident sent "a loud and clear message that this is still the bastion of white male supremacy...
...chemistry, understanding the meanings of most terms found on the outside of commercially-packaged food or health-care products pose little problem. Partially hydrogenated soybean oil is simply oil extracted from soybeans, which contains several double-bonded carbon atoms per molecule, that has been reacted with hydrogen and a catalyst. This process breaks some of the double bonds, enabling a few more of the carbon atoms to accept electrons from the hydrogen. Partial or complete hydrogenation is performed to make a substance remain solid at higher temperatures...
...Boston's image as a city fostering racial diversity is tarnished. I'm a Bostonian, and I'm not surprised that the World Series became the catalyst that brought to the surface a lot of underlying tensions...
...about time that a new generation of Americans realized that we have to kindle a new spirit," Kennedy said in his victory speech, which restated his commitment to social services and to his belief that "the Federal government can be used as a catalyst" to "put something back into this country that has given us so very much...
...oxygen-atom triplet. The result: a layer, from six to 30 miles up, of ozone-enriched air. Once formed, an ozone molecule is a good absorber of ultraviolet. But when CFCs rise to the ozone layer, sunlight decomposes them, releasing the chlorine they contain. The chlorine is a catalyst, breaking ozone apart without itself being affected. At present, the ozone layer lets enough ultraviolet through to cause sunburn and, in some people, skin cancer. More ultraviolet would increase the effect: the Environmental Protection Agency estimates a 1% drop in global ozone could cause 20,000 additional skin cancers...