Word: openly
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...damaged was part of Harvard's Nuclear Magnetic Resonance laboratory, which allow synthetic chemists to observe the behavior of nuclei within molecules. The lab is currently closed and expected to be re-open within a few days, according to Shaw Huang, managing director of the laboratory...
...apprenticed with John Sayles and Martin Scorsese, but Barnard grad Babbit's boldest inspiration was Amy Heckerling, auteur of Clueless. Says Babbit: "I want a career like hers: do TV commercials, videos, everything!" An open lesbian, she read an article about "homosexual conversion camps" and fashioned a $1.2 million comedy around them. Cheerleader may not be Clueless, but neither is the 29-year-old Babbit. "It's no surprise women can direct films," she says. "It's surprising they're being given the opportunity to do so--and taking...
...biggest problem may be a bond market that has stopped doing the heavy lifting for him. You've heard of bond vigilantes? Those are traders who set long-term interest rates in the open market. Long rates are critical. They govern the pace of home building and most other debt-financed activity. Greenspan controls short rates, which influence long rates but imprecisely...
...Frazier transformed himself from a supremely hip New Yorker humorist into a serious but never somber chronicler of the American heartland. In On the Rez (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 311 pages; $25) Frazier entertainingly continues this investigation, although his interest is now concentrated on a specific patch of the wide-open spaces, the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, home of the Oglala Sioux. Why this place and these people? While researching Great Plains, Frazier met and became friends with Le War Lance, a Sioux man with colorful if not always credible stories of his own exploits...
...happy to report no one has gone mad on our farm this winter. We pile on stove wood and wait for spring, when the skies will open and rain frogs...