cataract
The ability to remove lenses darkened by cloudy imperfections,
known as cataracts, and substitute them with artificial lenses,
is more than half a century old.
descent
Congratulations to Barack Obama, soon to be our 44th President
and a man who had made history this week by becoming the first person
of African-American descent to be elected
to chief executive of the nation.
epithet
AS THE financial crisis gathered force in August 2007,
Jim Cramer, a hyperbolic market commentator
on cable television, hurled the worst epithet
he could muster at the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
hypocrisy
But while the ubiquity of hypocrisy
can sour you on human nature, there's a bright side:
scientists have lots of examples to study as they look for ways
to make hypocrisy a little less common than breathing.
hypothesis
The hypothesis formulated by Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
in 1859, according to Marcus du Sautoy of Oxford University,
is the holy grail of mathematics.
infrared
And unlike charcoal, which can require 20 to 30 minutes
to reach its 700-degree cooking temperature,
heat from the infrared burners can be adjusted quickly.
submarine
The boatyard had no finances to take the new submarine
to the Russian Navy's nuclear reactor facility
at Bolshoi Kamen to test the full capacity of the reactor.
viewpoint
What's your viewpoint on the recent scandal of Tiger Woods?
I think Tiger is a man, actually an ordinary man.
It is normal that he has had an affair.