Word: feather
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...wasn't there. For Tiwi (1990), she captured every aspect of daily life and ceremony, but it's the portraits that stay with you. Even when her subjects are naked, they are clothed in dignity. Even when they pose (one old man insisted on wearing a cockatoo-feather headdress), they are simply themselves...
Their work has won the Cleveland Clinic team a feather that any techie would covet in his cap--the attention of Internet giant Google. Cleveland Clinic was one of the search engine's early partners in Google Health, an online EHR service that was launched on May 19. For the hospital, it's an opportunity to expand patients' access to records. "We could only get so big on our own," says Joe Turk, a Web developer and the director of new products on the Cleveland Clinic technology team. "Google Health lets us go national...
...going really well,” she says between breaths. “It’s going faster than I thought it would be going. You just work so hard and for so long and the moment lasts for, like, 30 seconds.” One feather headdress and a pair of skin-tight leather pants later, Alford lets me know she’s finally done performing and ready to watch R&B singer J. Holiday close the show. I catch a glimpse of her later. standing on a chair, digital camera outstretched like a periscope...
...percent were admitted. Yet the admissions rate was between 34 and 35 percent for legacy applicants to the class of 2011 . Given the weight its degrees carry, shouldn’t Harvard base its admissions solely on merit? Why should legacy status serve even as a “feather in the scale,” as Dean of Admissions Marlyn McGrath ’70 put it? Maybe no one has made the right case for legacies. Sure, their SAT scores may be, on average, slightly higher than the rest of the applicant pool. They may come predominantly from...
...that is rapidly disappearing." Satisfy your appetite at the Tung Po seafood restaurant in North Point, above the market at 99 Java Road, a 20-minute tram ride away. Once you're stuffed, Sun says, a cab is the quickest way to the funkiest bar in town, Feather Boa. The antiques store turned bar is always crowded, he says, but the delicious drinks and friendly atmosphere make it worth elbowing your...